JINGLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jingling mean? 

• JINGLING (adjective)
  The adjective JINGLING has 1 sense:

1. having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells

  Familiarity information: JINGLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JINGLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells

Synonyms:

jingling; jingly

Context example:

jingling sleigh bells

Similar:

reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)

 Context examples 

All day they swung up and down the main street in long teams, and in the night their jingling bells still went by.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Immediately on recovering his clothes he had gone to see Ruth, and on the way he could not refrain from jingling the little handful of silver in his pocket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At length, when it was quite dark, Clever Elsie awoke and when she got up there was a jingling all round about her, and the bells rang at each step which she took.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She took possession of the keys soon after this, and went jingling about the house with the whole bunch in a little basket, tied to her slender waist.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She loved music so dearly, tried so hard to learn, and practiced away so patiently at the jingling old instrument, that it did seem as if someone (not to hint Aunt March) ought to help her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It chanced one summer morning, when Boy Jim and I were standing by the smithy door, that there came a private coach from Brighton, with its four fresh horses, and its brass-work shining, flying along with such a merry rattle and jingling, that the Champion came running out with a hall-fullered shoe in his tongs to have a look at it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Close at his heels came sixteen squires, all chosen from the highest families, and behind them rode twelve hundred English knights, with gleam of steel and tossing of plumes, their harness jingling, their long straight swords clanking against their stirrup-irons, and the beat of their chargers' hoofs like the low deep roar of the sea upon the shore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted; and afterwards, in listening to the sound of the piano or the harp played below, to the passing to and fro of the butler and footman, to the jingling of glass and china as refreshments were handed, to the broken hum of conversation as the drawing-room door opened and closed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then it is not I, and went to another door; but when the people heard the jingling of the bells they would not open it, and she could get in nowhere.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When he had squared every debt, redeemed every pledge, he would still have jingling in his pockets a princely $43.90.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)