sb. [Varied reduplication of jingle cf. dilly-dally, dingle-dangle, ding-dong, clink-clank, etc.] a. An alternating jingle of sounds; a sentence or verse characterized by this. b. Something that makes a continuous and alternating jingle; a jingling ornament or trinket.
1640. King & poore North. Man 179, in Hazl., E. P. P., IV. 300. With so many jingle jangles about ones necke, as is about yours.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. vii. (1737), 22. The everlasting Jingle Jangle of the Bells.
1851. Hawthorne, Twice-told T., II. xii. 191. The variety of rapid vehicles; and the jingle-jangle of merry bells, which made the heart dance to their music.
1864. N. Brit. Rev., Dec., 432. It was then he [Caracalla] made use of his famous jingle-jangle … ‘Inter Divos? Sit Divus … dummodo non sit vivus’: Let him [Geta] be a god, but don’t let him live.
So Jingle-jangle v., to jingle with alternation of sounds; to proceed with such jingling.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 13 Feb., 3/1. Such a paltry collection of commonplace tunes, handled clumsily, as jingle-jangles and drums its way through the piece.
