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jinglesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From jingle + -some.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of a jingle or marked by jingling
   • [...] 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 sharp-toothed frigates and an extortion industry - and this was only chanticleer's crow at the dawning, before even he learned to peck sugar from the palm of the Barbadoes. 2013, Eric Darton, Certain Amazing Adventures of Mr. Hoel:
   • "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:

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