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jinglesome

jinglesome adjective: characteristic of a jingle or marked by jingling.

Adjective

jinglesome (comparative more jinglesome, superlative most jinglesome)

  1. Characteristic of a jingle or marked by jingling
    • "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.1862, Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown, Memoir. Lectures and addresses
    • [...] 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...2013, Eric Darton, Certain Amazing Adventures of Mr. Hoel

Forms of jinglesome

comparativemore jinglesome
superlativemost jinglesome

Origin of jinglesome

From jingle + -some.

Questions about jinglesome

What does jinglesome mean?
Jinglesome means characteristic of a jingle or marked by jingling.
What part of speech is jinglesome?
Jinglesome is an adjective.

Words near jinglesome in the dictionary

  1. jingle-jangling
  2. jingled
  3. jingler
  4. jinglers
  5. jingles
  6. jinglesome
  7. jinglet
  8. jinglets
  9. jinglier
  10. jingliest
  11. jingling

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