1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [ Written also gingle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. “Jingling street ballads.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, a rhyming verse of no poetical merit. “ The least jingle of verse.” Guardian.
The verses used in commercial advertisements are often called jingles, especially when sung. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A word used as a jocular oath. “By the living jingo.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs; a bellicose superpatriot or chavinist. [ Cant, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ This sense arose from a doggerel song which was popular during the Turco-Russian war of 1877 and 1878. The first two lines were as follows: -- [ 1913 Webster ] We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do,
We 've got the ships, we 've got the men, we 've got the money too. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A bellicose patriotism; aggressive chauvinism; belligerence in international relations. [ PJC ]