gingle

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Noun

gingle (plural gingles)

1. Obsolete form of jingle.
   • 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     The gingle of his spurre, and the ierke of his wande.

Verb

gingle (third-person singular simple present gingles, present participle gingling, simple past and past participle gingled)

1. Obsolete form of jingle.
   • 1863, Westland Marston, Donna Diana:

     He asked me then what children
     Were they who gingled thus upon the lute?

References

• “gingle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• egling, leggin, leging, niggle