jingle
verb (used without object)
to make clinking or tinkling sounds, as do coins, keys, or other light, resonant metal objects when coming into contact or being struck together repeatedly.
jingler
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a word derived from
jingle.
Example Sentences
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"The large one is the gong bell, the other is the speed bell, and the latter is a jingler."
From Taken by the Enemy by Oliver Optic
Dud was talking to the jingler who had just come off duty.
From The Fighting Edge by William MacLeod Raine
If you are approaching a wharf or another vessel, or if a fog come up, you ring the jingler, if the boat is going at full speed, and the engineer slows her down.
From Taken by the Enemy by Oliver Optic
Thus was he timely saved, as he ingenuously confesses, from the very great misfortune of being, perhaps, a miserable jingler for life.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
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.
From Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
