Gingle vs. Jingle — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Gingle and Jingle
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Definitions
Gingle
Obsolete form of jingle
Jingle
A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. Jingles are a form of sound branding.
Gingle
Obsolete form of jingle
Jingle
To make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
Gingle
See Jingle.
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Jingle
To have the catchy sound of a simple, repetitious rhyme or doggerel.
Jingle
To cause to make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound.
Jingle
The sound produced by or as if by bits of metal striking together.
Jingle
A piece of light singsong verse or rhyme.
Jingle
A catchy, often musical advertising slogan.
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Jingle
The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
Jingle
(music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.
Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.
Jingle
A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.
That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.
Jingle
A carriage drawn by horses.
Jingle
(slang) A brief phone call; a ring.
Give me a jingle when you find out something.
Jingle
A jingle shell.
Jingle
Coin money.
Jingle
Pee, urine.
Jingle
(intransitive) To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
The beads jingled as she walked.
Jingle
(transitive) To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
She jingled the beads as she walked.
Jingle
To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
Jingle
To pee, to urinate.
Jingle
To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
Jingle
To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
Jingle
To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew.
Jingle
A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
Jingle
That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly.
Jingle
A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit;
Jingle
A metallic sound;
The jingle of coins
The jangle of spurs
Jingle
A comic verse of irregular measure;
He had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind
Jingle
Make a sound typical of metallic objects;
The keys were jingling in his pocket