Jingle

v. i.	1.
	1.	To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
	2.	To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
v. t.	1.	To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. [imp. & p. p. Jingled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Jingling .] The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. - Pope.
n.	1.	A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
	2.	That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle. If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly. - Bacon.
	3.	A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; Jingle shell b - See Gold shell (b), under Gold.

Noun	1.	jingle - a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs" Synonyms: jangle
	2.	jingle - a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" Synonyms: doggerel, doggerel verse
Verb	1.	jingle - make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket" Synonyms: jangle, jingle-jangle

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