[Reduplication of TINGLE.] A confused tinkling or ringing, as of a number of bells. (In quot. 1653 attrib.) Also fig. a disturbance, to-do, fuss.
a. 1634. Randolph, Muses Looking-gl., III. iv. (1638), 67.
| Now hang the hallowed bell about his neck, | |
| We call it a mellisonant Tingle Tangle, | |
| (Indeed a sheep-bell stolne from’s own fat wether.) |
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. xl. With a tingle tangle jangling of bells they trouble … all their neighbours.
1670. Aubrey, Introd. Nat. Hist. N. Wilts., in Misc. (1714), 35. The tingle tangle of their Convent Bells,… like the College Bells at Oxford.
1763. ? Cowper, in St. James’s Mag., III. Nov., 188.
| Smooth, Soothing Sounds, and sweet alternate rime, | |
| Clinking like change of bells, in tingle tangle chime. |
1880. Spurgeon, Serm., XXVI. 527. There is a great tingle-tangle over nothing.
