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▪ I. ˈtingle-ˈtangle1
[Reduplication of tingle.]
A confused tinkling or ringing, as of a number of bells. (In quot. 1653 attrib.) Also fig. a disturbance, to-do, fuss.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xl, With a tingle tangle jangling of bells they trouble..all their neighbours. 1670Aubrey Introd. Nat. Hist. N. Wilts. in Misc. (1714) 35 The tingle tangle of their Convent Bells,..like the College Bells at Oxford. 1880Spurgeon Serm. XXVI. 527 There is a great tingle-tangle over nothing.
▪ II. ˈtingle-ˈtangle2
Also tingel-tangel.
[ad. G. tingeltangel (with orig. reference to Berlin café chantant music); cf. tingle-tangle1.]
A cheap or disreputable music-hall or night-club, esp. in Germany; cabaret.
1911Mariner's Mirror I. 190/1 Those sing-song houses of ill repute, which in German and Scandinavian ports are called ‘tingle-tangles’. 1939Adeler & West Remember Fred Karno? 71 The music halls in Glasgow in those days were pretty rough houses. There was one called The White Bait, where the artistes were all girls, as in the Continental Tingel-Tangels. 1948[see peck horn]. 1972Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 25 Mar. 68/2 Cabaret in Germany never managed to be counted as a major or serious artistic venture... People came to refer to cabaret by a term whose unimportance needs no translation: Tingel-tangel. |