jingle

jingle
    n 1: a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of
         spurs" [syn: {jingle}, {jangle}]
    2: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly
       doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn:
       {doggerel}, {doggerel verse}, {jingle}]
    v 1: make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were
         jingling in his pocket" [syn: {jingle}, {jingle-jangle},
         {jangle}]
    

Jingle \Jin"gle\, v. i. [OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E.
   chink; cf. also E. jangle.]
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   1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or
      tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also
      {gingle}.]
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   2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street
      ballads." --Macaulay.
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Jingle \Jin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jingled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Jingling}.]
   To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or
   as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
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         The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. --Pope.
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Jingle \Jin"gle\, n.
   1. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little
      bells or pieces of metal.
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   2. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
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            If you plant where savages are, do not only
            entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use
            them justly.                          --Bacon.
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   3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the
      verse has little merit; hence, a rhyming verse of no
      poetical merit. " The least jingle of verse." --Guardian.

   Note: The verses used in commercial advertisements are often
         called jingles, especially when sung.
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   {Jingle shell}. See {Gold shell}
      (b), under {Gold}.
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220 Moby Thesaurus words for "jingle":
      Alexandrine, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet,
      Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet,
      accent, accentuation, alba, alliterate, alliteration, amphibrach,
      amphimacer, anacreontic, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis,
      assonance, assonate, bacchius, balada, ballad, ballade, beat,
      bucolic, cadence, caesura, canso, cap verses, catalexis,
      change ringing, chanson, chime, chiming, chink, chinking,
      chloriamb, chloriambus, clack, clang, clanging, clangor, clank,
      clanking, clatter, clerihew, clink, clinking, colon, counterpoint,
      cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, ding,
      ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dipody, dirge, dithyramb,
      ditty, dochmiac, doggerel, dong, donging, drone, eclogue, elegiac,
      elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, elegy, emphasis, epic,
      epigram, epithalamium, epitrite, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos,
      feminine caesura, foot, georgic, ghazel, gong, haiku, harping,
      heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody,
      humdrum, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, idyll, ionic,
      jangle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling,
      lilt, limerick, lyric, madrigal, masculine caesura, measure,
      melody, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group,
      metrical unit, metron, molossus, monody, monotone, monotony, mora,
      movement, narrative poem, near rhyme, numbers, nursery rhyme, ode,
      paeon, palinode, paronomasia, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela,
      pastourelle, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pentameter, pentapody,
      period, pitter-patter, poem, proceleusmatic, prothalamium, pun,
      pyrrhic, quantity, rattle, repeated sounds, repetitiousness,
      repetitiveness, rhyme, rhythm, ring, ring changes, ringing,
      rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, scan, sestina,
      singsong, slant rhyme, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, sound,
      sound a knell, spondee, sprung rhythm, stale repetition, stress,
      swing, syzygy, tanka, tedium, tenso, tenzone, tetrameter,
      tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, threnody, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle,
      tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll,
      tolling, tribrach, trimeter, triolet, tripody, triseme, trochee,
      trot, troubadour poem, tune, unnecessary repetition, verse,
      verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay