jingle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
2. v. To have the catchy sound of a simple, repetitious rhyme or doggerel.
3. v. To cause to make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
4. n. The sound produced by or as if by bits of metal striking together.
5. n. A piece of light singsong verse or rhyme.
6. n. A catchy, often musical advertising slogan.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To emit tinkling metallic sounds; tinkle or clink, as bells, coins, chains, spurs, keys, or other metallic objects.
2. To have a musical sound, or a light pleasing effect upon the ear, independently of sense, as verse or rimes.
3. To cause to give a tinkling metallic sound, as a little bell or as pieces of metal.
4. n. A tinkling or clinking sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
5. n. Something that jingles; a little bell or rattle; specifically, one of the little metallic disks set in the frame of a tambourine.
6. n. Musical or sprightly sound in verse or rimes; poetry or a poem having a musical or sprightly sound, with little sense; a catching array of words, whether verse or prose.
7. n. A covered two-wheeled car used in the south of Ireland.
8. n. A mollusk of the genus Anomia.
9. n. A two-wheeled car (like the Irish jingle) used in some parts of Australia.

Wiktionary

1. n. The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
2. n. A short tune or verse, especially one used to advertise something.
3. n. A carriage drawn by horses.
4. v. To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
5. v. To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound.
2. v. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
3. v. To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
4. n. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
5. n. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
6. n. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit a rhyming verse of no poetical merit.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make a sound typical of metallic objects
2. n. a metallic sound
3. n. a comic verse of irregular measure