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Webster 1913 Edition
Tinkle
{
, Tink′er-shire
,Tin′kle
}Noun.
(Zool.)
The common guillemot.
[Prov. Eng.]
1.
To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
As sounding brass, or a
tinkling
cymbal. 1 Cor. xiii. 1.
The sprightly horse
Moves to the music of his
Moves to the music of his
tinkling
bells. Dodsley.
2.
To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
And his ears
tinkled
, and the color fled. Dryden.
Tin′kle
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tinkled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tinkling
.] To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
Tin′kle
,Noun.
A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.
Cowper.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tinkle
TINK'LE
, v.i.1.
To make small quick sharp sounds, as by striking on metal; to clink. --And have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Cor.13. Is.3.
The sprightly horse
Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
The moment the money tinkles in the chest, the soul mounts out of purgatory.
2.
To hear a small sharp sound. And his ears tinkled, and his color fled.
TINK'LE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
tinkle
tinkle
English
Verb
tinkle (third-person singular simple present tinkles, present participle tinkling, simple past and past participle tinkled)
- (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
- The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
- Dodsley
- The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
- (intransitive, informal, juvenile) To urinate.
- (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
- (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
- The butler tinkled dinner.
- To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
- Dryden
- And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.
- Dryden
Related terms
Translations
to make light metallic sounds
Noun
tinkle (plural tinkles)
- A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus, ch. 2:
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. . . . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus, ch. 2:
- (Britain, informal) A telephone call.
- Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
- (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.
Translations
informal: phone call
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