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Jingle vs Clatter - What's the difference?

jingle | clatter | Synonyms |

Jingle is a synonym of clatter.


As nouns the difference between jingle and clatter

is that jingle is the sound of metal or glass clattering against itself while clatter is a rattling noise.

As verbs the difference between jingle and clatter

is that jingle is to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself while clatter is to cause to make a rattling sound.

jingle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    • He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
  • A short tune or verse, especially one used to advertise something.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.” }}
  • A carriage drawn by horses.
  • *

    • Verb

  • To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    • The beads jingled as she walked.
  • To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    • She jingled the beads as she walked.
  • (dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
  • * Macaulay
    • Jingling street ballads.

    Derived terms

    * jingle bell

    Related terms

    * jangle

    See also

    * clink * rattle ----

    clatter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rattling noise.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title= The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
  • A loud disturbance.
  • Noisy talk or chatter.

    • Synonyms

    * commotion * racket

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to make a rattling sound.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • You clatter still your brazen kettle.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=21 November , author=Michael Cragg , title=New music: Foxes - Home , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Do we really need another doe-eyed female singer-songwriter with a penchant for electro-pop? Twenty-two-year-old Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, certainly thinks so. Available as a free download via Neon Gold, her debut single Youth is a monster mix of keening vocals, slow-burn electronics and, by the song's end, big clattering drums. }}
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...
  • To make a rattling noise.
  • To chatter noisily or rapidly.
  • * Spenser
    • I see thou dost but clatter .
  • (Northern English) To hit; to smack.
  • * 1988 , , Friday Night Live
    • "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”
  • * 2010 , Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till
    • “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.

    Derived terms

    * clatterer * clatteringly * clattery