jinglesome

jinglesome

English

Etymology

From jingle +‎ -some.

Adjective

jinglesome (comparative more jinglesome, superlative most jinglesome)

1. Characteristic of a jingle or marked by jingling
   • 1862, Rufus Choate, ‎Samuel Gilman Brown, Memoir. Lectures and addresses:

     "Thank your dear mother and Rufus for their letters. I hope for Minnie a neck without a crick, and a lot without a crook, if one may be so jinglesome.

   • 2013, Eric Darton, Certain Amazing Adventures of Mr. Hoel:

     [...] having rowed and portaged a score of pestilential leagues upstream from the disemboguement of El Rio Echt to discover a mine so deeply posh with all things gay, gaudy, and jinglesome in the pocket that the very rumor of it, much less its actuality, launched a merchant navee, a flotilla of sharp-toothed frigates and an extortion industry - and this was only chanticleer's crow at the dawning, before even he learned to peck sugar from the palm of the Barbadoes.