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   Jingle (?), 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, 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, 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.
   
   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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