Tinkling

adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tinkle; a tinkling sound.

    "The merry piano tinklings were gone."

  2. 2
    The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger. Jamaica
  3. 3
    The action of the verb to tinkle
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of tinkle form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    That tinkles. not-comparable

    ""A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you."

  2. 2
    That works as a tinker not-comparable, obsolete
Adjective
  1. 1
    like the short high ringing sound of a small bell wordnet

Synonyms

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change ringingchimechimingchinkclangclanging

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"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not mercy, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."

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