Citations:chinkle

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English citations of chinkle

Noun: the chinkle

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Etymology 2

1937
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  • 1937 — Helen Simpson, Under Capricorn, book 1, chapter 13
    Adare rang the bell. So still was the night that now the sighing in the room had stopped and the birds had settled down again in their tree, he could hear the chinkle of the bell, tossing on its wire in the kitchen fifty yards away, downstairs.
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