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. A short tune or verse, especially one used to advertise something.
   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”:

     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.

Translations

sound

• Czech: cinkání n, cinkot m
• Finnish: kilinä, helinä

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

short tune or verse

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

• Serbo-Croatian: džìngl m
• Swedish: jingel c

carriage

• Serbo-Croatian: kočija

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, helistä
• Russian: бренчать (ru) impf (brenčátʹ), звенеть (ru) impf (zvenétʹ), дребезжать (ru) impf (drebezžátʹ)

• Swedish: klinga (sv)

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

• Finnish: kilistää, helistää
• Russian: звякать (ru) impf (zvjákatʹ), звонить (ru) impf (zvonítʹ), бряцать (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): /dʒiŋgœl/

Noun

jingle m (plural jingles)

1. jingle (tune)

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