1. Verb
To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
2. Verb
To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
3. Verb
To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
4. Noun
A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
5. Noun
That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
6. Noun
A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
7. Noun
a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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