Jingle
Jingle , intransitive verb
[Old English gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to English chink; compare also English jangle.]
1.
To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
2.
To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
Jingling street ballads.
Jingle , transitive verb
To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew.
Jingle , noun
1.
A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
2.
That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly.
The verses used in commercial advertisements are often called jingles, especially when sung.
3.
A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit;
a rhyming verse of no poetical merit.
The least jingle of verse.
Collocations (1)
Jingle shell , See Gold shell (b), under Gold.