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  • adjective that jingles, having a jingling sound.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells

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Examples

  • We saw the belly dancers again this year, and they were pretty; I want jingly things!

    LOOK AHEAD '09! tragic_elegance 2009

  • And most everyone on the crew received trinkets - necklaces, matching jingly bracelets and earrings, sweet perfume - from his annual trip back home to Cairo.

    The man who would greet 'The Press' Jason Horowitz 2011

  • And if the person who presents the poetry to them is skillful and loves poetry herself, it is surprising how much kids can get out of poetry — not just the jingly-jangly verse or the stuff that panders to their obsession with subjects parents would rather not discuss in polite company, but serious subjects on deep themes.

    Chicken Spaghetti: 2009

  • And if the person who presents the poetry to them is skillful and loves poetry herself, it is surprising how much kids can get out of poetry — not just the jingly-jangly verse or the stuff that panders to their obsession with subjects parents would rather not discuss in polite company, but serious subjects on deep themes.

    Wise Words from the Children's Poet Laureate 2009

  • I love Lily and her purple plastic purse, not to mention those jingly quarters.

    » No Time to Be Sick Strocel.com 2009

  • Although I was left with strange neurological bells and whistles—jingly nerve endings, tired, locked muscles, twitchy connections—it seemed a minuscule price to pay for being able to walk unassisted again.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Although I was left with strange neurological bells and whistles—jingly nerve endings, tired, locked muscles, twitchy connections—it seemed a minuscule price to pay for being able to walk unassisted again.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • I just took the comforting, a kitten enjoying the moment before trotting off to bat a jingly ball.

    Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

  • Thats really rather wionderful HG I only knew the last line which, I daresay because of its subsequent history, has a jingly note now out of keeping with the rest of the verse

    Rye Recollections Newmania 2008

  • Kitteh sikritly massermynded teh loozing ob teh jingly glittery fings, az teh nawmurgl play toys aer boring.

    Wotz it saing? Sumthin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

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