Dictionary Entry
jingle
jingle is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
- 2intransitive verb
To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
- 4noun
A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
- 5noun
That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
- 6noun
A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
- 7noun
a comic verse of irregular measure
"he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
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- 8noun
a metallic sound
"the jingle of coins"
"the jangle of spurs"
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- 9verb
make a sound typical of metallic objects
"The keys were jingling in his pocket"
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