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say it: JING-guhl
jingle is a noun and verb meaning "a metallic sound". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a comic verse of irregular measure
“he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind”
make a sound typical of metallic objects
“The keys were jingling in his pocket”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jingle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.