[f. JINGLE v. + -ER1.]
1. One who or that which jingles; a rhymer.
1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., II. v. I had spurres of mine own before: but they were not ginglers.
1672. Eachard, Hobbs’s State Nat., 30. Thou shalt see that thou art ten times more an Owl, than I am a cheat and jingler.
1803. T. G. Fessenden, Terrible Tractoration, II. (ed. 2), 89, note. The wolf always makes it his first object to silence this jingler [the bell wether].
1884. J. G. Bourke, Snake-Dance of Moquis, xi. 119. A fringe of small bells, or jinglers, of lead and tin.
† 2. slang. (See quot.) Obs. rare–0.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Jinglers, Horse-Coursers frequenting Country Fairs.
3. A local name for the Golden-eyed Duck.
1829. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 360. The golden-eye is here provincially called gingler or ginging-curre, from the noise of its wings.
1888. G. Trumbull, Names & Portraits Birds, xxiii. 79. At Pleasantville … Jingler; at Baltimore and on the Patapsco River, Whiffler.
