tinkle
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tinkle (third-person singular simple present tinkles, present participle tinkling, simple past and past participle tinkled)
- (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
- The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
- (intransitive, informal, juvenile) To urinate.
- (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
- (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
- The butler tinkled dinner.
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Translations [edit]
to make light metallic sounds
Noun [edit]
tinkle (plural tinkles)
- A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus, ch. 2:
- 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 tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus, ch. 2:
- (UK, informal) A telephone call.
- Give someone a tinkle.