ajingle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈd͡ʒɪŋɡəl/
Adjective
ajingle (not comparable)
- Jingling.
- 1890, Rosamund Marriott Watson (as Graham R. Tomson), “The Ballad of Tonio Manzi,” Scribner’s Magazine, Volume 7, No. 1, January 1890, p. 53,
- […] the beasts in harness
- Now and then awaking, stirring,
- Set their listless bells ajingle.
- 1947, Seán O’Casey, Oak Leaves and Lavender, New York: Macmillan, act 2, page 83:
- You’re as superstitious as my father, who, if he had his way, would have my neck ajingle with his holy medals.
- 1955, Patrick White, chapter 7, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 75:
- They were riding down to Wullunya in O’Dowd’s spring cart, all ajingle on the yellow road, lashing the water with their wheels.
- 1890, Rosamund Marriott Watson (as Graham R. Tomson), “The Ballad of Tonio Manzi,” Scribner’s Magazine, Volume 7, No. 1, January 1890, p. 53,
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