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.

to make light metallic sounds

informal: to urinate

to cause to tinkle

to indicate by tinkling

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.
(UK, informal) A telephone call.

Give someone a tinkle.

light metallic sound

informal: phone call