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JINGLING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells
Example:
jingling sleigh bells
Synonyms:
jingling; jingly
Classified under:
Similar:
reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb jingle
Context examples:
I know it was near the bar, on account of the smell of spirits and jingling of glasses.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Reluctantly Martin yielded to the claims of the grocer, paying his bill with him in full, and receiving in change a pocketful of jingling coin.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
When we got into the street (which was strange enough to me) and smelt the fish, and pitch, and oakum, and tar, and saw the sailors walking about, and the carts jingling up and down over the stones, I felt that I had done so busy a place an injustice; and said as much to Peggotty, who heard my expressions of delight with great complacency, and told me it was well known (I suppose to those who had the good fortune to be born Bloaters) that Yarmouth was, upon the whole, the finest place in the universe.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For weeks it had been a very dull and sombre world; but now, with nearly all debts paid, three dollars jingling in his pocket, and in his mind the consciousness of success, the sun shone bright and warm, and even a rain-squall that soaked unprepared pedestrians seemed a merry happening to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There was no bedroom before me, but again the jingling table covered with glasses; the lamp; Grainger on my right hand, Markham on my left, and Steerforth opposite—all sitting in a mist, and a long way off.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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