jinglesome

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English

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Etymology

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From jingle +‎ -some.

Adjective

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jinglesome (comparative more jinglesome, superlative most jinglesome)

  1. Characteristic of a jingle or marked by jingling
    • 1862, Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown, Memoir. Lectures and addresses:
      "Thank your dear mother and Rufus for their letters. I hope for Minnie a neck without a crick, and a lot without a crook, if one may be so jinglesome.
    • 2013, Eric Darton, Certain Amazing Adventures of Mr. Hoel:
      [...] having rowed and portaged a score of pestilential leagues upstream from the disemboguement of El Rio Echt to discover a mine so deeply posh with all things gay, gaudy, and jinglesome in the pocket that the very rumor of it, much less its actuality, launched a merchant navee, a flotilla of sharp-toothed frigates and an extortion industry - and this was only chanticleer's crow at the dawning, before even he learned to peck sugar from the palm of the Barbadoes.