n. [ Hind. jangāl a swivel, a large musket. ] A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel. [ Written also gingal and jingall. ] [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E. chink; cf. also E. jangle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [ Written also gingle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. “Jingling street ballads.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Jingled p. pr. & vb. n. Jingling ] To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, a rhyming verse of no poetical merit. “ The least jingle of verse.” Guardian.
The verses used in commercial advertisements are often called jingles, especially when sung. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, jingles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of producing a jingle; also, the sound itself; a chink. “The jingling of the guinea.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to jingle. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Jingoes [ Said to be a corruption of St. Gingoulph. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A word used as a jocular oath. “By the living jingo.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs; a bellicose superpatriot or chavinist. [ Cant, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ This sense arose from a doggerel song which was popular during the Turco-Russian war of 1877 and 1878. The first two lines were as follows: -- [ 1913 Webster ] We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do,
We 've got the ships, we 've got the men, we 've got the money too. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo, 2. [ Cant, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A bellicose patriotism; aggressive chauvinism; belligerence in international relations. [ PJC ]

n. One who is jingoistic; a bellicose patriot; an extreme bellicose nationalist; an aggressive chauvinist.
Syn. -- chauvinist, jingo, flag-waver, hundred-percenter. [ WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]