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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



... The sky was lighted only by the afterglow of the red, sunken sun; the evening breeze carried along in the warm air the perfume of the jasmine flowers and orange groves in bloom, and no sound was heard but the music of guitars and castanets, mingled sometimes with the faint tinkle of ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... Inferno. There was almost no conversation; only once in a while was heard a remark, in a whisper or an undertone, addressed by a player to his neighbor; the only sound was that short, dry rustle of the cards and the crackling of new bank notes, or the tinkle of gold coins making their way round the table from the bank to the players, and from the players back ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various
... was the empty bowl in which the concierge had brought me my and the fragment of croissant which I had not had appetite enough to eat. I heard the concierge in the next room emptying my bath. There was a tinkle at my bell, and I left her to open the door. In a moment I heard Stroeve's voice asking if I was in. Without moving, I shouted to him to come. He entered the room quickly, and came up to the table ...
— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham
... escape notice. Often at night, when all were asleep, he would steal away to the garret and work at the spinet, mastering difficulties one by one. The strings of the instrument had been wound with cloth to deaden the sound, and thus made only a tiny tinkle. ...
— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower
... of summer, touching the parks with the grey bloom of mist, the beech-trees with russet, the oak-trees with gold. Up on the heights, battalions of black pines witnessed the change, themselves unchangeable. Either country was spanned by a cloudless sky, and in either arose the tinkle of ...
— A Room With A View • E. M. Forster


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