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Jingling

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jin·gle  (jnggl)
v. jin·gled, jin·gling, jin·gles
v.intr.
1. To make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
2. To have the catchy sound of a simple, repetitious rhyme or doggerel.
v.tr.
To cause to make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
n.
1. The sound produced by or as if by bits of metal striking together.
2. A piece of light singsong verse or rhyme.
3. A catchy, often musical advertising slogan.
[Middle English ginglen, of imitative origin.]
jingly adj.
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Adj.1.jingling - having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells; "jingling sleigh bells"
jingly
reverberant - having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"


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At length, when it was quite dark, Clever Elsie awoke and when she got up there was a jingling all round about her, and the bells rang at each step which she took.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
The sun was already sinking into the trees when they went with their jingling dippers into the wooded ravine of Mashkin Upland.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
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