# jingle
## English
### Alternative forms

* gingle (obsolete)

### Etymology

The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡl̩/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
* Hyphenation: jing‧le

### Noun

jingle (plural jingles)
* The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
* (music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.
    Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.
* (broadcasting, advertising, music) A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.
    Coordinate terms: clock chime, theme music
    That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.
** 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”
* A carriage drawn by horses.
** 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, page 85:They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.
* (slang) A brief telephone call.
    Synonyms: bell, ring, tinkle
    Give me a jingle when you find out something.
* A jingle shell.
* (slang, uncountable) Coin money.
** 2004, “P.E.T.A.”, in Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2, episode 1:If all you folks who donate your hard-earned jingle to PETA aren't convinced of your ill-advised ways yet, you should probably check this out.
* (Philippines, colloquial) Pee, urine.

#### Derived terms

* crambo-jingle
* give someone a jingle
* jingle bell
* jingle-brains
* jingle-jangle
* jingle mail
* jingling Johnny

#### Translations
### Verb

jingle (third-person singular simple present jingles, present participle jingling, simple past and past participle jingled)
* (intransitive) To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    The beads jingled as she walked.
** 1922 February, James Joyce, “[IV]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 54:He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really.
* (transitive) To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    She jingled the beads as she walked.
* (dated, intransitive) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
** 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:jingling street ballads
* (Philippines, colloquial) To pee, to urinate.

#### Derived terms

* ajingle
* jingly

#### Related terms

* jangle

#### See also

* clink
* rattle

### References

* ↑ “jingle, verb.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English jingle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdʒɪŋ.ɡəl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: jin‧gle

### Noun

jingle m (plural jingles, diminutive jingletje n)
* a jingle (song segment used in a commercial or radio program; also used for certain other sound samples used by radio DJs)

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English jingle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʒiŋɡl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

jingle m (plural jingles)
* jingle (tune)
    C’est l’heure d’envoyer le jingle.It's time to play the jingle.

### Further reading

* “jingle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jingle.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒĩ.ɡow/ [ˈd͡ʒĩ.ɡoʊ̯]

### Noun

jingle m (plural jingles)
* (advertising) jingle (short, memorable song used in an advertisement)

## Spanish
### Noun

jingle m (plural jingles)
* jingle