Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A trinket; anything that jingles.
- n. A jingling sound.
- To make a jingling sound.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a sound typical of metallic objects
Examples
“It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.”
“Sound is sucked into the vacuum of crisis, crumbs of birdsong and motorcycle engines and ice cream truck jingle-jangle mixed together into a heady cocktail of nothing.”
“There was something epic and perhaps even Bollywood-tinged about some of the camera angles, which featured more extreme, squinting facial portraits than normal, notably in an opening segment dominated by the Indian bowler Sreesanth, surely the most accessorised cricketer in history, a jingle-jangle scarecrow of bangles, bandages, medallions and bracelets.”
The Guardian: India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
“Moving like a fat ninja to the door, I scooped up my keys off the desk, stuffing them into my pocket harshly to prevent any jingle-jangle.”
“Then, and I hope we can, the only "clash of civilizations" we will hear ever about again will be nothing more than the jingle-jangle of all the world's religious trinkets in our great President Barack Obama's pockets.”
“While in a mom and pop shop: 1. Through the jingle-jangle front door 2. past the sleeping cat 3. exchange small talk with person reading behind counter.”
“If that tone sounds, that song or bird-song, or hip-hop top-ten tune, or jingle, or jangle, or jingle-jangle, or something really, really cool like crickets or an old fashioned rotary ring; you know where that phone is going, right?”
“I'm retracting my statement and getting on board with Benji's jingle-jangle magic.”
“My jingle-jangle notion of Euro includes things such as: white sunglasses, modern discoteques, hair that flips up a bit, the naked young bourgeoisie in the Versace ads, brightly colored accessories made of modern materials, and lotta-'tude.”
“James are best known for their Student Union jukebox staple 'Sit Down', and this compilation of 18 tracks spans their career from Smiths jingle-jangle contemporaries to baggy marginalised indie group.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jingle-jangle’.
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Bob Dylan, Revisited
Per bilby's request for a list with "Memorable lyrics snippets, bio trivia, landmarks, etc."
Highway 61, Desolation Row, the tombstone blues, going electric, Maggie's farm, Robert Allen Zimm..., Hibbing, MN, Duluth, MN, The Times They Ar..., Blonde on Blonde, Mike Bloomfield, Joan Baez and 159 more...
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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