jingle

jingle has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. i.. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
• v. i.. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
• v. t.. To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
• n.. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
• n.. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
• n.. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
• n.. a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
• n.. a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs"
• v.. make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket"