Jingle Definition | What is Jingle? - PoetrySoup
Definition
[n] a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
[n] a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs"
[v] as of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket"
Short, simple piece of rhyming verse e.g. nursery rhymes or adverts such as: 'Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes'.
Synonyms
doggerel, doggerel verse, jangle, jangle, jinglejangle
See Also...
make noise, noise, resound, rhyme, sound, verse
Related Terms
accent, accentuation, alba, Alexandrine, alliterate, alliteration, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacreontic, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, assonance, assonate, bacchius, balada, ballad, ballade, beat, bucolic, cadence, caesura, canso, cap verses, catal
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