Sc. Also jing-go-ring, jing-a-ring. [With the first element, cf. JINK v.1] A girls’ game in which they join hands in a circle, and move to music round a central girl, singing the ditty of which the beginning is cited in quot. 1841.
1841. in R. Chambers, Pop. Rhymes Scot., 268. ‘Here we go the jingo-ring, The jingo-ring, the jingo-ring, Here we go the jingo-ring, About the merry-ma-tanzie.’
1865. [R. Buchanan], in Cornh. Mag., March, 358. Little folk, that play at jing-a-ring.
a. 1872. W. Miller, Hairst, in Whistle-Binkie, II. 346 (Jam. Suppl.). An’ han’ in han’ they jink about Like weans at jingo-ring.
