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tinkle
/ˈtɪŋkəl/
verb 5noun 4name 1
Collocations
3(noun.)
ADJ
faint, little, soft
VERB + TINKLE
hear
PREP
with a ~
The small bell above the door chimed with a delicate tinkle as the customer entered.
Definitions
verb
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.
2
To cause to tinkle.
3
To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
The butler tinkled dinner.
4
To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.
5
To urinate.
noun
1
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.
2
A telephone call.
Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
3
An act of urination.
4
Urine.
name
1
A surname.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
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The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
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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.
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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.
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She laughed, her voice a tinkle in the silence of the circular chamber.
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At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. . . . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle
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