Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trinket; anything that jingles.
- noun A jingling sound.
- To make a jingling sound.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a sound typical of metallic objects
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Examples
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There was something epic and perhaps even Bollywood-tinged about some of the camera angles, which featured more extreme, squinting facial portraits than normal, notably in an opening segment dominated by the Indian bowler Sreesanth, surely the most accessorised cricketer in history, a jingle-jangle scarecrow of bangles, bandages, medallions and bracelets.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay 2011
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It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.
Mike Ragogna: Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams EPK Exclusives, Plus Conversations with Matt Nathanson, Roger McGuinn, and My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way Mike Ragogna 2011
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Sound is sucked into the vacuum of crisis, crumbs of birdsong and motorcycle engines and ice cream truck jingle-jangle mixed together into a heady cocktail of nothing.
Anhedonia (excerpt) Laura Preble 2010
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It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.
Mike Ragogna: Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams EPK Exclusives, Plus Conversations with Matt Nathanson, Roger McGuinn, and My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way Mike Ragogna 2011
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Moving like a fat ninja to the door, I scooped up my keys off the desk, stuffing them into my pocket harshly to prevent any jingle-jangle.
In the Beginning... Francis Rizzo III 2010
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Then, and I hope we can, the only "clash of civilizations" we will hear ever about again will be nothing more than the jingle-jangle of all the world's religious trinkets in our great President Barack Obama's pockets.
Vamsee Juluri: Obama's Inaugural Gesture to Hindu America 2009
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While in a mom and pop shop: 1. Through the jingle-jangle front door 2. past the sleeping cat 3. exchange small talk with person reading behind counter.
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If that tone sounds, that song or bird-song, or hip-hop top-ten tune, or jingle, or jangle, or jingle-jangle, or something really, really cool like crickets or an old fashioned rotary ring; you know where that phone is going, right?
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I'm retracting my statement and getting on board with Benji's jingle-jangle magic.
Euro-Girlie Slimbolala 2006
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My jingle-jangle notion of Euro includes things such as: white sunglasses, modern discoteques, hair that flips up a bit, the naked young bourgeoisie in the Versace ads, brightly colored accessories made of modern materials, and lotta-'tude.
Euro-Girlie Slimbolala 2006
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