ˈjingo-ˈring Sc.
Also jing-go-ring, jing-a-ring.
[With the first element, cf. jink v.1]
A girls' game in which they join hands in a circle, and move to music round a central girl, singing the ditty of which the beginning is cited in quot. 1841.
| 1841 in R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scot. 268 ‘Here we go the jingo-ring, The jingo-ring, the jingo-ring, Here we go the jingo-ring, About the merry-ma-tanzie.’ 1865 Cornh. Mag. Mar. 358 Little folk, that play at jing-a-ring. a 1872 W. Miller Hairst in Whistle-Binkie II. 346 (Jam. Suppl.) An' han' in han' they jink about Like weans at jingo-ring. |