Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈtɪŋkəl/
Pronunciation notes
- US
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ˈtɪŋkəl
Pronunciation notes
- US
Verb
To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
Usage- Intransitive
- Examples
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The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
More examples (2)
With a sound like tinkling bells, far off in a land of shepherds hidden by some hill, the waters of many fountains turned again home.
Outside, the crickets and the tree-frogs started to zing and tinkle and the great hawkmoths came to the wire-netting across the windows and clutched it, gazing with trembling ecstasy at the two oil lamps that hung from the cross-beams inside.
To cause to tinkle.
Usage- Transitive
To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
Usage- Transitive
- Examples
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The butler tinkled dinner.
To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
- Examples
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And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.
To urinate.
Usage- Informal
- Intransitive
Noun
A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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The Man's Wife heard the tinkle-tinkle of little stones and loose earth falling off the roadway, and the sliding roar of the man and horse going down.
She laughed, her voice a tinkle in the silence of the circular chamber.
More examples (1)
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.
A telephone call.
Usage- UK usage
- Countable
- Informal
- Uncountable
- Examples
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Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
An act of urination.
Usage- Countable
- euphemistic
- Informal
- Uncountable
Urine.
Usage- Countable
- euphemistic
- Informal
- Uncountable
Noun
a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
Verb
make or emit a high sound
- Examples
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tinkling bells