The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jingling \Jin"gling\, n.
The act or process of producing a jingle; also, the sound
itself; a chink. ``The jingling of the guinea.''
--Tennyson.
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.
Wiktionary
n. A jingle, the sounds of a jingle. vb. (present participle of jingle English)
WordNet
adj. having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells; "jingling sleigh bells" [syn: jingly]
Usage examples of "jingling".
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.
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.
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.
And thy jingling bells--ah, Joconde, the jingle of thy bells hath waked within my heart that which shall never die--long time my heart hath cried for thee, and I, to my shame, heeded not the cry, wherefore here and now, thus upon my knees, I do most humbly confess my love.
It was dyed dark blue, and was decorated with tassels, and bells with pleasant jingling notes that justled in the breeze.
I cut across past the town hall and heard from up ahead the jingling of Pickel and his keys, although it was too far for the smell of gin.
Vanessa waited tensely in the barouche, trying to stop the harness jingling too much.
Tristen drew in a breath rough-edged with the smell of oak and earth and autumn, and knew that Mauryl would not be there, not at distant Ynefel, certainly not on this hilltop in Guelessar, and that he had well and truly overstayed his time, since he heard the jingling of men and horses coming up the road.
Pomegranates jingling like sheep bells, the priest carries the shellful of water to the sacred enclosure.
They gyrated and shook, bangles jingling, finger-cymbals clashing, to the beat of the tabour and the drone of the doumbek.
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.
A hail of calthrops arced through the sky, jingling and jangling like a pouch full of coins.