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give someone a jingle

give someone a jingle is the alternative form of give someone a ring.

Meaning of give someone a ring

Verb (1)

give someone a ring (third-person singular simple present gives someone a ring, present participle giving someone a ring, simple past gave someone a ring, past participle given someone a ring)

  1. Become engaged.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, ring.

Verb (2)

give someone a ring (third-person singular simple present gives someone a ring, present participle giving someone a ring, simple past gave someone a ring, past participle given someone a ring)

  1. (idiomatic) To place a telephone call to someone.

Forms of give someone a jingle

third-person singular presentgives someone a jingle
present participlegiving someone a jingle
pastgave someone a jingle
past participlegiven someone a jingle

Questions about give someone a jingle

What is give someone a jingle the alternative form of?
Give someone a jingle is the alternative form of give someone a ring.

Words near give someone a jingle in the dictionary

  1. give someone a bloody nose
  2. give someone a break
  3. give someone a buzz
  4. give someone a hand
  5. give someone a hard time
  6. give someone a jingle
  7. give someone a lift
  8. give someone a piece of one's mind
  9. give someone a ring
  10. give someone a shout
  11. give someone a speaking to

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Adapted from Wiktionary: give someone a jingle (page history and authors); give someone a ring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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