jingle
English
Alternative forms
- gingle (obsolete)
Etymology
(onomatopoeia); compare jangle.
Pronunciation
Noun
jingle (plural jingles)
- The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
- (music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.
- Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.
- (advertising) A memorable 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.
- That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.
- 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 book title or journal name)[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.”
- A carriage drawn by horses.
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- (slang) A brief phone call; a ring.
- Give me a jingle when you find out something.
- Alternative form of jingle shell
Coordinate terms
- (snippet of a popular melody): clock chime
Translations
sound
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short tune or verse
carriage
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Verb
jingle (third-person singular simple present jingles, present participle jingling, simple past and past participle jingled)
- To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- The beads jingled as she walked.
- To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- She jingled the beads as she walked.
- (dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
- Macaulay
- jingling street ballads
- Macaulay
Translations
to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself
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to cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English jingle.
Pronunciation
Noun
jingle m (plural jingles)
- jingle (tune)
- C'est l'heure d'envoyer le jingle.
Further reading
- “jingle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Noun
jingle m (plural jingles)
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