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tinkled
English
Verb
tinkled
- simple past tense and past participle of tinkle
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tinkle
English
Etymology
From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink +? -le (frequentative suffix).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?t??k?l/
- Rhymes: -??k?l
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.
- 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
- The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
- 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
- (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
- (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
- To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
- And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.
- (intransitive, informal) To urinate.
Synonyms
- (urinate): See Thesaurus:urinate
Derived terms
- atinkle
- tinkle-down
- tinkle the ivories
Translations
Noun
tinkle (plural tinkles)
- A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
- (Britain, informal) A telephone call.
- Synonyms: call, ring
- (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.
Translations
tinkle From the web:
- what twinkles
- what twinkles in the sky at night
- what twinkle twinkle little star
- what twinkles in the highwayman
- what tinkles on the shingles
- what tinkles
- what twinkles in the sky
- what twinkle does the poet refer to
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