jingle
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See also: Jingle
Alternative forms
- gingle (obsolete)
Etymology
The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
- Hyphenation: jing‧le
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.
- (broadcasting, advertising, music) 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.
- Coordinate terms: clock chime, theme music
- 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):
- 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.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, 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.
- (slang) A brief telephone call.
- A jingle shell.
- (slang, uncountable) Coin money.
- 2004, “P.E.T.A.”, in Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2, episode 1:
- If all you folks who donate your hard-earned jingle to PETA aren't convinced of your ill-advised ways yet, you should probably check this out.
- (Philippines, colloquial) Pee, urine.
Derived terms
Translations
sound
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small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument
short tune or verse
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Verb
jingle (third-person singular simple present jingles, present participle jingling, simple past and past participle jingled)
- (intransitive) To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- The beads jingled as she walked.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[IV]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 54:
- He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really.
- (transitive) To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
- She jingled the beads as she walked.
- (dated, intransitive) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- jingling street ballads
- (Philippines, colloquial) To pee, to urinate.
Derived terms
Related terms
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
See also
References
- “jingle, verb.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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