tinkling

English

Noun

tinkling (plural tinklings)

1. A tinkle; a tinkling sound.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 591:

     The merry piano tinklings were gone.

2. (Jamaica) The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.

Adjective

tinkling (not comparable)

1. That tinkles.

   "A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you.

2. (obsolete) That works as a tinker

Verb

tinkling

1. present participle of tinkle