[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That jingles: see the verb.
1557–8. Phaër, Æneid, VI. R j b. From thens wer howlings heard … and gyngling noyse of draggyng chaynes.
1570. B. Googe, Pop. Kingd., IV. 48 b. A hundred gingling belles do hang, to make his courage more.
1610. Shaks., Temp., V. i. 232. Seuerall noyses Of roring, shreeking, howling, gingling, chaines.
1634. Heywood, Witches Lanc., IV. i. Wks. 1874, IV. 218. I wanted but a paire of gingling spurs to make you mend your pace.
1789. Burns, On Capt. Grose’s Peregrin., vi. Auld nick-nackets: Rusty airn caps and jinglin jackets.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, iii. (1858), 252. Whatsoever is not sung is properly no Poem, but a piece of Prose cramped into jingling lines,—to the great injury of the grammar, to the great grief of the reader, for most part!
Hence Jinglingly (ging-) adv.
1840. Browning, Sordello, V. 953. Some shape … Approached, out of the dark, ginglingly near.
