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Tinkle   /tˈɪŋkəl/   Listen
verb
Tinkle  v. t.  (past & past part. tinkled; pres. part. tinkling)  To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.


Tinkle  v. i.  
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." "The sprightly horse Moves to the music of his tinkling bells."
2.
To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound. "And his ears tinkled, and the color fled."


noun
Tinkle, Tinkershire  n.  (Zool.) The common guillemot. (Prov. Eng.)


Tinkle  n.  A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.





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"Tinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... stretched away before her gleaming in the sunlight tinder a vast sweep of cloudless blue. She was half-way down the long slope when a clash and tinkle reached her, and for the first time she noticed that a cloud of dust hung about the hollow at the foot of it, where there had been another sloo. It had, however, evidently dried up weeks ago, and as there were men and horses moving amidst the ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... master of mankind, the Caesar for whom the eagle-eyed Catherine of Russia had so quietly waited and looked when the helpless and hopeless orgie of 1789 began. The Past from which he emerged, the Future which he evoked, both loom larger than human in the shadow of that colossal figure. What a silly tinkle, as of pastoral bells in some Rousseau's Devin du Village, have the 'principles of 1789,' when the stage rings again with the stern accents of the conqueror, hectoring the senators of the free and imperial city of Augsburg, for example, on his way to ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
... deer, which broke off in front of me towards my adversary. That would tell him my whereabouts, I thought, and for some time I lay still with a palpitating heart. But soon the silence resumed its sway, a deathlike silence, with far off the faint tinkle ...
— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan
... or scritch-scratching on a slate; and the rest o' the time she's like nothin' but the girl in the song, that had 'bells on her fingers and rings on her toes.' I hear that piano-forty going at all hours; it's tinkle, tinkle, every other thing. What's the good ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner
... as bad as that," says I, "I wish she'd wait until mornin' to express herself. That's the most doleful sound I ever heard. Come on; let's go in while you tinkle out something lively ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford


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