Tinkle

/ˈtɪŋkəl/ name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell wordnet
  3. 3
    A telephone call. UK, countable, informal, uncountable

    "Give me a tinkle when you arrive."

  4. 4
    An act of urination. countable, euphemistic, informal, uncountable
  5. 5
    Urine. countable, euphemistic, informal, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell. intransitive

    "The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table."

  2. 2
    make or emit a high sound wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to tinkle. transitive
  4. 4
    To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling. transitive

    "The butler tinkled dinner."

  5. 5
    To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.

    "And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled."

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  1. 6
    To urinate. informal, intransitive
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

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babblebumpcallchange ringingchatchatter

Example

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"When they gave her the piggy bank, the first thing Laura did was put in a couple of coins and shake it to hear it tinkle."

Etymology

From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with West Frisian tinkelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tinkelen (“to tinkle”), German Low German tinkeln (“to flicker, glitter, sparkle”).

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