Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which jingles; in the quotation, a kind of spur.
  • noun The whistlewing or golden-eyed duck.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, jingles.

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  • noun One who, or that which, jingles.

Etymologies

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jingle +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Dud was talking to the jingler who had just come off duty.

    The Fighting Edge William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • All were blindfolded with the exception of one, who was the jingler, and who carried a bell in each hand, which he was obliged to keep ringing.

    Old English Sports 1892

  • It was an amusing sight to see the men trying to catch the active jingler, running into each other's arms, and catching every one but the right one.

    Old English Sports 1892

  • Richard, never at any time a glib jingler of rhymes, was in sorry case, for now that he had most need of his wits, his passion instead of sharpening them seemed to have removed them utterly.

    Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) 1886

  • "The large one is the gong bell, the other is the speed bell, and the latter is a jingler."

    Taken by the Enemy Oliver Optic 1859

  • "Going at full speed, the jingler brings the engine down to half speed, or at half speed carries it up to full speed."

    On The Blockade Oliver Optic 1859

  • 'I gave not quite a rix dollar for the jingler;' and threw me back that he had gone to cheat me of; honest for once, and over late; and so, with many sighs, bade me Godspeed.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

  • Marjorie was busy and jumpy, a jingler of change and a tapper of toes, which made it pretty rich that she called Uncle Glen hyper.

    VQR 2009

  • Marjorie was busy and jumpy, a jingler of change and a tapper of toes, which made it pretty rich that she called Uncle Glen hyper.

    VQR 2009

  • Microsoft Bing jingler sticks it to Techcrunch’s MG Siegler | Webbyn. com

    Bing Has Succeeded… In Finding The Worst Jingle Ever MG Siegler 2005

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  • I imagine a locally notorious bus frotteur who calls himself The Jingler

    April 16, 2009

  • Oh dear.

    April 16, 2009

  • bussing and froteurism- what a combo

    April 16, 2009