jingle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: advertising
broadcasting
business
entertainment
lifestyle
marketing
media
music
Etymology: The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.
Inflected forms:
form: jingles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gingle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jingles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jingling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jingled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jingled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gingle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
pos: noun
examples: He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.
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.”
gloss: A carriage drawn by horses.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A brief telephone call.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Give me a jingle when you find out something.
gloss: A jingle shell.
pos: noun
gloss: Coin money.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Pee, urine.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
gloss: To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The beads jingled as she walked.
I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear ſpurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderſtanding.
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.
gloss: To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She jingled the beads as she walked.
gloss: To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: jingling street ballads
gloss: To pee, to urinate.
pos: verb
tags: Philippines
colloquial
Related words: jangle
clink
rattle
Derived words: crambo-jingle
give someone a jingle
jingle bell
jingle-brains
jingle-jangle
jingle mail
jingling Johnny
ajingle
jingler
jinglesome
jinglet
jinglingly
jingly
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