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jingling
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What does jingling mean?
noun
- The sound made by something that jingles.
- An old parlour game in which blindfolded players within a ring attempted to catch another player to whom a bell was tied.
verb
- present participle and gerund of jingle
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At last his squaw ran out, and he after her, round the wigwam, with his money jingling at his knees.
Their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do.
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Behind sits a business-looking person - usually a Jew - jingling a handful of medjedis, and expectantly eyeing every approaching stranger.
All day they swung up and down the main street in long teams, and in the night their jingling bells still went by.
It is beside the bed, in the corners of offices, awaiting you at meals, jingling down the passages of hotels, bubbling in the streets.