Also gingling. [f. JINGLE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. JINGLE, q.v.
14[?]. Chaucer’s Nun’s Pr. Prol., 28 (Harl. MS.). Gingling [6-text, clynkyng] of þe bellis Þat on ȝour bridil hong on euery syde.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 195/1. Gyngelynge of gay harneys…, resonancia.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 75. With theese Gods gingling [voce deorum], with sight moste geason apaled.
1601. Weever, Mirr. Mart., E j. Jingling of fetters had no merie sound.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., I. iii. § 1. The puddle-Poet did hope, that the jingling of his rhyme would drown the sound of his false quantity.
1731. A. Hill, Adv. Poets, xxiii. Shame on your Jyngling, ye soft Sons of Rhyme!
1842. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, 105. The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.
b. attrib., as jingling match, a diversion in which all the players are blindfolded except one, who keeps ringing a bell in each hand, while the others try to catch him.
c. 1786. Cowper, Lett., Wks. 1835, V. 355. All who are attached to the jingling art.
1807. Strutt, Sports & Past., IV. iii. § 31. Jingling match … a diversion common enough at country wakes and fairs.
1805. Sporting Mag., XXV. 304. A smock-race and a jingling-match were to take place.
1888. Daily Tel., 23 April, 5/4. We hear nowadays less and less of … gingling and whistling matches.
