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jingle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jingle \Jin"gle\, v. i. [OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E. chink; cf. also E. jangle.]
To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also gingle.]
To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. ``Jingling street ballads.''
--Macaulay.
Jingle \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.
Jingle \Jin"gle\, n.
A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
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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.
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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.Note: The verses used in commercial advertisements are often called jingles, especially when sung.
Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., gingeln, of imitative origin (compare Dutch jengelen, German klingeln). Related: Jingled; jingling.
1590s, from jingle (v.). Meaning "song in an advertisement" first attested 1930, from earlier sense of "catchy array of words in prose or verse" (1640s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself. 2 (''advertising'') A 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 television or radio commercial. vb. 1 To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself. 2 To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself. 3 (context dated English) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
WordNet
n. a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs" [syn: jangle]
a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: doggerel, doggerel verse]
v. make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket" [syn: jingle-jangle, jangle]
Wikipedia
In percussion, a jingle is a rattle consisting of a small metal disc, such as those arranged around the frame of a tambourine.
That term is referenced in Bob Dylan's hit song, Mr. Tambourine Man. It is an onomatopoeic term, often used together with jangle. An example of that usage is found in a Frank Loesser song: "I've got spurs that jingle-jangle-jingle as I go riding merrily along".
A jingle is a memorable slogan, set to an engaging melody, mainly broadcast on radio and sometimes on television commercials.
Jingle or jingles may also refer to:
A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. The jingle contains one or more hooks and meaning that explicitly promote the product or service being advertised, usually through the use of one or more advertising slogans. Ad buyers use jingles in radio and television commercials; they can also be used in non-advertising contexts to establish or maintain a brand image. Jingles are a form of sound branding. Many jingles are also created using snippets of popular songs, in which lyrics are modified to appropriately advertise the product or service.
Jingle is an extension to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) which adds peer-to-peer (P2P) session control (signaling) for multimedia interactions such as in Voice over IP (VoIP) or videoconferencing communications. It was designed by Google and the XMPP Standards Foundation. The multimedia streams are delivered using the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). If needed, NAT traversal is assisted using Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE).
, the proposed Jingle specification had not yet been approved by the XMPP Standards Foundation, but is now a Draft Standard, meaning: "Implementations are encouraged and the protocol is appropriate for deployment in production systems, but some changes to the protocol are possible before it becomes a Final Standard."
The libjingle library, used by Google Talk to implement Jingle, has been released to the public under a BSD license. It implements both the current standard protocol and the older, pre-standard version.
Usage examples of "jingle".
She was a dark-skinned Ammonite, her eyelids blackened with kohl, her arms ajingle with crude golden bracelets in the shape of serpents, too many of them, and too noisily jingling, her hair a flamboyant red from the dye of the henna plant.
Behind him sat the apish behemoth Jingles with his head swathed in white gauze.
Two pages and three gentlemen were waiting upon him, and Mad Noll, the jester, stood at the head of the bed, now and then jingling his bawble and passing some quaint jest upon the chance of making his master smile.
Ping followed, his bell jingling only once as Birdie carefully shut the door.
After fumbling in his pocket, Dex produced a ring heavy with jingling keys.
A pogue taken from a dizzy shop-girl containing one silver shilling carried the same penalty at law as a dumby lifted from a rich toff stuffed with Bank of England longtails and jingling with gold sovereigns.
I was so taken by the idea I let him go, and he jingled off in an ekka as pleased as Punch.
The very rattle of the shingle under my feet and the jingle of my navy scabbard seemed offensive in the perfect hush, and, too awed to be frightened, I presently turned away from the dreadful shine of those cliffs and felt my way along the base of the wall on my own side.
Their hobnailed boots crashed on the planking and the dangling metal fittings of their armor jingled together.
The Duchess Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders-- of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St.
It jingled and whirred, causing her instinctively to jump to one side, as if she had transgressed upon one of those vipers that vibrate their tails when disturbed.
Hardly were the last of those on their way when most of the Confederation cavalry brigade jingled down from the western mountains to collect the baggage left behind at the commencement of the campaign and spend a few weeks resting and reorganizing.
The man in the cloak stretched his mouth, and jingled the markers in his fist.
She extracted a cloth bag that jingled richly and handed it up to Florian.
Not a single bell of the hundreds he wore had jingled at his approach.