jin·gle /ˈʤɪŋgəl/
叮噹聲(vt.)(vi.)(使)作叮噹聲,(使)押韻
Jin·gle v. i.
1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also gingle.]
2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. “Jingling street ballads.”
Jin·gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jingled p. pr. & vb. n. Jingling ] To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. --Pope.
Jin·gle, 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; hence, a rhyming verse of no poetical merit. “ The least jingle of verse.”
Note: The verses used in commercial advertisements are often called jingles, especially when sung.
Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold.
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jingle
n 1: a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of
spurs" [syn: jangle]
2: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly
doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: doggerel,
doggerel verse]
v : make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were
jingling in his pocket" [syn: jingle-jangle, jangle]