atinkle

adj
/əˈtɪŋkəl/

Etymology

From a- + tinkle.

  1. inherited from tinclen
  2. prefixed as atinkle — “a + tinkle

Definitions

  1. Making a tinkling sound.

    • The mountain vale, arousing Ocean, sings, And all the air’s a-tinkle as with strings;
    • 1894, Kenneth Grahame, “The Fairy Wicket” in Pagan Papers, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, p. 91, […] every copse and hedge-row seems a-tinkle with faint elfish laughter.
    • O Love! were you the hooded hawk upon my hand that flutters, Its collar-band of gleaming bells atinkle as I ride,

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA