gingle
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Noun[edit]
gingle (plural gingles)
- 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[edit]
gingle (third-person singular simple present gingles, present participle gingling, simple past and past participle gingled)
- Obsolete form of jingle.
- 1863, Westland Marston, Donna Diana:
- He asked me then what children
Were they who gingled thus upon the lute?
References[edit]
- “gingle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.