'Tinkle' definitions:
Definition of 'tinkle'
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Definition of 'Tinkle'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Tinkle'
From: GCIDE
- Tinkle \Tin"kle\, n. A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tinkle'
From: GCIDE
- Tinkershire \Tink"er*shire\, Tinkle \Tin"kle\, n. (Zool.) The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tinkle'
From: GCIDE
- Tinkle \Tin"kle\, v. i. [Freq. of tink. See Tink, Tingle.]
- 1. To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink. [1913 Webster]
- As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. --1 Cor. xiii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- The sprightly horse Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. --Dodsley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound. [1913 Webster]
- And his ears tinkled, and the color fled. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tinkle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- babble,
- bump,
- change ringing,
- chat,
- chatter,
- chime,
- chiming,
- chink,
- clack,
- clang,
- clanging,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clanking,
- click,
- clink,
- clop,
- clump,
- clunk,
- crump,
- ding,
- ding-a-ling,
- dingdong,
- dinging,
- dingle,
- dong,
- donging,
- dull thud,
- flick,
- flump,
- gab,
- gong,
- jangle,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jinglejangle,
- jingling,
- knell,
- knelling,
- pad,
- pat,
- patter,
- peal,
- peal ringing,
- pealing,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- plink,
- plump,
- plunk,
- pop,
- prattle,
- rap,
- rattle,
- ring,
- ring changes,
- ringing,
- sound,
- sound a knell,
- tap,
- thud,
- thump,
- tick,
- ting,
- ting-a-ling,
- tingle,
- tingling,
- tink,
- tinkling,
- tinnitus,
- tintinnabulate,
- toll,
- tolling,
- tunk,
- yak