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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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JINGLE, n.², v. Also gingle, gingel. Sc. usages:

I. n. 1. In phr. to play jingle, to jingle, rattle (Sh. 1959).Edb. 1821 W. Liddle Poems 196:
Made skelf and plates, a' things play jingle.

†2. An instant.Abd. 1801 W. Beattie Parings 5:
Tibby was back just in a gingle.

3. Combs.: (1) jinglebaunds in phr. to caa (something's) jinglebaunds oot, to knock something to bits (Fif. 1971);  (2) gingle-harrow, a set of four harrows arranged to form a square and joined to one another by links, prob. so called from the rattling noise of these (Clc. 1814 P. Graham Agric. Clc. 435 Plate); (3) jingle-jointit, (a) of a person: “double”-jointed, with flexible joints (Bwk. 1942 Wettstein; Slk. 1959); (b) of a structure: not having its connections or joints properly united or fastened, unsteady or shaky (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B., “a jingle-jointed table”).(3) (b) Rxb. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 6:
The firrst Peinelheuch Moniment . . . maun heh been buggen keinda jingle-jointeet, or maun heh cowblt on ov a gey coaggly foond.

II. v. As in Eng. Hence 1. agent n.pl. jinglers, the common quaking-grass, Briza media (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.). Also silver jinglers, id. (Rxb. 1919 T.S.D.C. III.); 2. Jingle Chase, Jingling-, a game in which all the players but one are chasers, and the chasers are all blinded. The one who is chased carried a bell or a rattle which he has to keep sounding, and the game is played in a confined space (Edb. 1969 I. & P. Opie Children's Games 120). 3. phr.: jingle the bonnet, see quot.; 4. Jingle the Keys, a counting-out game in which one taps his fist against his mouth, then against the fist of each other player in turn, while reciting the rigmarole 'Not me, sir. Who then, sir? Jingle the Keys sir!' (w.Lth. 1920).3. s.Sc. 1825 Jam.:
Jingle-the-Bonnet. A game, in which two or more put a halfpenny each . . . in a cap or bonnet, and, after jingling or shaking them together, throw them on the ground. He who has most heads, when it is his turn to jingle, gains the stakes which were put into the bonnet.