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jinkle

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋkl̩/

jinkle is the alternative form of jingle.

Meaning of jingle

Verb

jingle (third-person singular simple present jingles, present participle jingling, simple past and past participle jingled)

  1. (intransitive) To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    • The beads jingled as she walked.
  2. (transitive) To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    • She jingled the beads as she walked.
  3. (dated, intransitive) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
    • jingling street ballads1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
  4. (Philippines, colloquial) To pee, to urinate.

See all 13 meanings of jingle

Forms of jinkle

third-person singular presentjinkles
present participlejinkling
past participlejinkled
pastjinkled

Words that rhyme with jinkle

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about jinkle

What is jinkle the alternative form of?
Jinkle is the alternative form of jingle.
How do you pronounce jinkle?
Jinkle is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɪŋkl̩/.

Words near jinkle in the dictionary

  1. jinkiest
  2. jinking
  3. Jinkings
  4. Jinkins
  5. Jinkinses
  6. jinkle
  7. jinkled
  8. jinkles
  9. jinkling
  10. jinkohol
  11. jinks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jinkle (page history and authors); jingle (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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