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- noun Plural form of
jingler .
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Examples
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Some makers have attached bells and other jinglers to hoops, but no boy fit to wear boots cares for these baby contrivances.
Healthful Sports for Boys Alfred Rochefort
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He did not want to arouse anybody in the camp or to call the attention of the night jinglers to his presence.
The Fighting Edge William MacLeod Raine 1912
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It was never a proper setting for a rusty, out-of-doors painter-man, nor has such a fellow ever found himself complacently at ease there since the day its first banquet was spread for a score or so of fine-feathered epigram jinglers, fiddling
The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907
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I passed my hands over her arms, without relaxing my grasp, so as to feel that she had nothing secreted there; when suddenly a tambourine ring, jinglers and all, was passed on to my arm.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869
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Rig it, dig it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy; Make fire-flies; break the jinglers!
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Be it known unto you that whereas in the course of our care and watchings over the order and police of all and sundry the manufacturers, retainers, and venders of poesy; bards, poets, poetasters, rhymers, jinglers, songsters, ballad-singers, &c. &c. &c.
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"A right-down natteral, fine conceit!" muttered Captain Ralph, approvingly: "the next time I come a-grabbin 'hosses, if I don't fetch a bushel of the jinglers, I wish I may be kicked!
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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I would willingly sleep; these -- my dear sister, all these old fineries and love-jinglers would as fain wake. "
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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