Meanings
- not comparableJingling.
1890, Rosamund Marriott Watson (as Graham R. Tomson), “The Ballad of Tonio Manzi,” Scribner’s Magazine, Volume 7, No. 1, January 1890, p. 53, […] the beasts in harness Now and then awaking, stirring, Set their listless bells ajingle.
2 more examples
You’re as superstitious as my father, who, if he had his way, would have my neck ajingle with his holy medals.
1947, Seán O’Casey, Oak Leaves and Lavender, New York: Macmillan, act 2, page 83They were riding down to Wullunya in O’Dowd’s spring cart, all ajingle on the yellow road, lashing the water with their wheels.
1955, Patrick White, chapter 7, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 75
Origin
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