tinkle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.

   • The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
   • The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
   • 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.
2. 2

   To cause to tinkle.

3. 3

   To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.

   • The butler tinkled dinner.
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   1. 4

      To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.

      • And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.
   2. 5

      To urinate.

   3. 6

      A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.

      • 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.
   4. 7

      A telephone call.

      • Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
   5. 8

      An act of urination.

   6. 9

      Urine.

   7. 10

      A surname.

The neighborhood

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