gingle
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Noun
gingle (plural gingles)
- Obsolete form of jingle.
- 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- The gingle of his spurre, and the ierke of his wande.
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Verb
gingle (third-person singular simple present gingles, present participle gingling, simple past and past participle gingled)
- Obsolete form of jingle.
- 1863, Westland Marston, Donna Diana:
- He asked me then what children
Were they who gingled thus upon the lute?
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References
- gingle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- egling, leggin, leging, niggle