Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
- intransitive verb To have the catchy sound of a simple, repetitious rhyme or doggerel.
- intransitive verb To cause to make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
- noun The sound produced by or as if by bits of metal striking together.
- noun A piece of light singsong verse or rhyme.
- noun A catchy, often musical advertising slogan.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To emit tinkling metallic sounds; tinkle or clink, as bells, coins, chains, spurs, keys, or other metallic objects.
- To have a musical sound, or a light pleasing effect upon the ear, independently of sense, as verse or rimes.
- To cause to give a tinkling metallic sound, as a little bell or as pieces of metal.
- noun A two-wheeled car (like the Irish jingle) used in some parts of Australia.
- noun A tinkling or clinking sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
- noun Something that jingles; a little bell or rattle; specifically, one of the little metallic disks set in the frame of a tambourine.
- noun Musical or sprightly sound in verse or rimes; poetry or a poem having a musical or sprightly sound, with little sense; a catching array of words, whether verse or prose.
- noun A covered two-wheeled car used in the south of Ireland.
- noun A mollusk of the genus Anomia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
- noun That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
- noun A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit
- noun See Gold shell (b), under
Gold . - intransitive verb To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound.
- intransitive verb To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
- transitive verb To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The sound of
metal orglass clattering against itself. - noun A short
tune orverse , especially one used toadvertise something. - noun A
carriage drawn byhorses . - verb To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- verb To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a sound typical of metallic objects
- noun a metallic sound
- noun a comic verse of irregular measure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Special thanks to Kosta Andreadis for our awesome title jingle!
IGN Complete 2010
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Into his head had come a new mantra, a jingle from a commercial on TV when he was growing up, a child of baseball fields and macadam basketball courts with their bent and rusted hoops and the intense otherworldly green of a New York summer, a green so multivalent and assertive it was like a promise of life to come.
The Silence 2010
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One thing is for sure; it has nothing whatever to do with the mealy mouthed jingle from the Home Office called the Policing Pledge.
The Italian Job « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Into his head had come a new mantra, a jingle from a commercial on TV when he was growing up, a child of baseball fields and macadam basketball courts with their bent and rusted hoops and the intense otherworldly green of a New York summer, a green so multivalent and assertive it was like a promise of life to come.
The Silence 2010
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Into his head had come a new mantra, a jingle from a commercial on TV when he was growing up, a child of baseball fields and macadam basketball courts with their bent and rusted hoops and the intense otherworldly green of a New York summer, a green so multivalent and assertive it was like a promise of life to come.
The Silence 2010
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The old Toffifay candy commercial jingle is something that really offended me as a kid.
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The old Toffifay candy commercial jingle is something that really offended me as a kid.
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Liberals should stop kidding themselves that some kind of brilliant silver-bullet new jingle is going to turn everything around and stay focused on doing the harder job of changing the underlying attitudes.
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This jingle is comedy gold, folks, especially the razzle-dazzle way the unknown little boy (possibly a girl) singer delivers it.
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From "The irresistible, singable, stick-in-your-mindable jingle is dead" (Boston Globe):
Winter scenes M-mv 2005
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