To emit tinkling metallic sounds; tinkle or clink, as bells, coins, chains, spurs, keys, or other metallic objects.To have a musical sound, or a light pleasing effect upon the ear, independently of sense, as verse or rimes.To cause to give a tinkling metallic sound, as a little bell or as pieces of metal.n. A tinkling or clinking sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.n. Something that jingles; a little bell or rattle; specifically, one of the little metallic disks set in the frame of a tambourine.n. Musical or sprightly sound in verse or rimes; poetry or a poem having a musical or sprightly sound, with little sense; a catching array of words, whether verse or prose.n. A covered two-wheeled car used in the south of Ireland.n. A mollusk of the genus Anomia.n. A two-wheeled car (like the Irish jingle) used in some parts of Australia.