Jingle Definition & Meaning | Bay Area Crosswords

About The Word Jingle

Learn about the word Jingle to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Jingle definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Jingle

Jingle Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Jingle? [n] a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [n] a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs" [v] as of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Jingle: doggerel \| doggerel verse \| jangle \| jangle \| jinglejangle Related Terms \| Find terms related to Jingle: accent \| accentuation \| alba \| Alexandrine \| alliterate \| alliteration \| amphibrach \| amphimacer \| anacreontic \| anacrusis \| anapest \| antispast \| arsis \| assonance \| assonate \| bacchius \| balada \| ballad \| ballade \| beat \| bucolic \| cadence \| caesura \| canso \| cap verses \| catalexis \| change ringing \| chanson \| chime \| chiming \| chink \| chinking \| chloriamb \| chloriambus \| clack \| clang \| clanging \| clangor \| clank \| clanking \| clatter \| clerihew \| clink \| clinking \| colon \| counterpoint \| cretic \| dactyl \| dactylic hexameter \| diaeresis \| dimeter \| ding \| ding-a-ling \| dingdong \| dinging \| dingle \| dipody \| dirge \| dithyramb \| ditty \| dochmiac \| doggerel \| dong \| donging \| drone \| eclogue \| elegiac \| elegiac couplet \| elegiac pentameter \| elegy \| emphasis \| English sonnet \| epic \| epigram \| epithalamium \| epitrite \| epode \| epopee \| epopoeia \| epos \| feminine caesura \| foot \| georgic \| ghazel \| gong \| haiku \| harping \| heptameter \| heptapody \| heroic couplet \| hexameter \| hexapody \| Horatian ode \| humdrum \| iamb \| iambic \| iambic pentameter \| ictus \| idyll \| ionic \| Italian sonnet \| jangle \| jinglejangle \| jingle-jangle \| jingling \| knell \| knelling \| lilt \| limerick \| lyric \| madrigal \| masculine caesura \| measure \| melody \| meter \| metrical accent \| metrical foot \| metrical group \| metrical unit \| metron \| molossus \| monody \| monotone \| monotony \| mora \| movement \| narrative poem \| near rhyme \| numbers \| nursery rhyme \| ode \| paeon \| palinode \| paronomasia \| pastoral \| pastoral elegy \| pastorela \| pastourelle \| peal \| peal ringing \| pealing \| pentameter \| pentapody \| period \| Petrarchan sonnet \| Pindaric ode \| pitter-patter \| poem \| proceleusmatic \| prothalamium \| pun \| pyrrhic \| quantity \| rattle \| repeated sounds \| repetitiousness \| repetitiveness \| rhyme \| rhythm \| ring \| ring changes \| ringing \| rondeau \| rondel \| roundel \| roundelay \| Sapphic ode \| satire \| scan \| sestina \| Shakespearean sonnet \| singsong \| slant rhyme \| sloka \| song \| sonnet \| sonnet sequence \| sound \| sound a knell \| spondee \| sprung rhythm \| stale repetition \| stress \| swing \| syzygy \| tanka \| tedium \| tenso \| tenzone \| tetrameter \| tetrapody \| tetraseme \| thesis \| threnody \| ting \| ting-a-ling \| tingle \| tingling \| tink \| tinkle \| tinkling \| tinnitus \| tintinnabulate \| toll \| tolling \| tribrach \| trimeter \| triolet \| tripody \| triseme \| trochee \| trot \| troubadour poem \| tune \| unnecessary repetition \| verse \| verselet \| versicle \| villanelle \| virelay See Also \| make noise \| noise \| resound \| rhyme \| sound \| verse Jingle In Webster's Dictionary \Jin"gle\, v. i. [OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E. chink; cf. also E. jangle.] 1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also {gingle}.] 2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. ``Jingling street ballads.'' --Macaulay. \Jin"gle\, 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. The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. -- Pope. \Jin"gle\, n. 1. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal. 2. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle. If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles,but use them justly. -- Bacon. 3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.`` The least jingle of verse.'' --Guardian. {Jingle shell}. See {Gold shell} (b), under {Gold}.

Jingle Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Jingle?

[n] a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
[n] a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs"
[v] as of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket"

Jingle In Webster's Dictionary

\Jin"gle\, v. i. [OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E.
chink; cf. also E. jangle.]
1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or
   tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also
   {gingle}.]

2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. ``Jingling
   street ballads.'' --Macaulay.


\Jin"gle\, 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.

      The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. -- Pope.


\Jin"gle\, n.
1. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little
   bells or pieces of metal.

2. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.

         If you plant where savages are, do not only
         entertain them with trifles and jingles,but use them
         justly.                               -- Bacon.

3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the
   verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.`` The
   least jingle of verse.'' --Guardian.

{Jingle shell}. See {Gold shell}
   (b), under {Gold}.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

Gluteus minimus ‐ the innermost of the three…
Gaudery ‐ cheap or…
Decrement ‐ the amount by which something decreases [n] a process of becoming…
Updraft ‐ a strong upward…
Snow orchid ‐ waxy white nearly leafless plant with stems in clusters and racemes…
Gaseousness ‐ having the…
Triplochiton ‐ small genus of tropical African trees with…
Greek partridge ‐ of mountainous areas of…
Perodicticus potto ‐ a…
Snafu ‐ an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: Situation…