jingle

English

Etymology

(onomatopoeia); compare jangle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɪŋɡəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Noun

jingle ‎(plural jingles)

1. The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.

   He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.

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 TV or radio commercial.
   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the title of the work)^[1]:

     The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

3. A carriage drawn by horses.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, page 85:

     They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.

4. (slang) A quick, brief phone call.

   Give me a jingle when you find out something.

5. Alternative form of jingle shell

Translations

sound

• Czech: cinkání n, cinkot m
• Finnish: kilinä, helinä (fi)

• Russian: звон (ru) m ‎(zvon)
• Serbo-Croatian: zvȅkēt (sh) m, zveckanje

short tune or verse

• Czech: znělka f
• Finnish: mainossävel, ralli (fi), laulelma, jinkku

• Hebrew: זמריר (he) m
• Serbo-Croatian: džìngl (sh) m
• Swedish: jingel (sv) c

carriage

• Serbo-Croatian: kočija (sh)

Verb

jingle ‎(third-person singular simple present jingles, present participle jingling, simple past and past participle jingled)

1. To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.

   The beads jingled as she walked.

2. To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.

   She jingled the beads as she walked.

3. (dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
   • Macaulay

     Jingling street ballads.

Translations

to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself

• Finnish: kilistä (fi), helistä (fi)
• Russian: бренча́ть (ru) impf ‎(brenčátʹ), звене́ть (ru) impf ‎(zvenétʹ), дребезжа́ть (ru) impf ‎(drebezžátʹ)

• Swedish: klinga (sv)

to cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself

• Finnish: kilistää (fi), helistää (fi)
• Russian: звя́кать (ru) impf ‎(zvjákatʹ), звони́ть (ru) impf ‎(zvonítʹ), бря́цать (ru) impf ‎(brjácatʹ)

• Swedish: klinga med

Derived terms

• jingle bell

Related terms

• jangle

See also

• clink
• rattle

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French

Etymology

From English jingle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒiŋɡœl/

Noun

jingle m ‎(plural jingles)

1. jingle (tune)

   C'est l'heure d'envoyer le jingle.

External links

• “jingle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).