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tinkled

[ting-kuhl]

Origin

verb (used without object)

to give forth or make a succession of short, light, ringing sounds, as a small bell.

to run one's fingers lightly over a keyboard instrument or to play such an instrument simply or badly.

Baby Talk. to urinate.

verb (used with object)

to cause to tinkle or jingle: The goat tinkled its bell every time it raised its head. Who's tinkling the piano?

to make known, call attention to, attract, or summon by tinkling.

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noun

a tinkling sound or tune.

an act or instance of tinkling.

Informal. a telephone call: Give me a tinkle before you leave for Europe.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English tynclen, frequentative of tinken to clink; imitative

Related forms

out·tin·kle, verb (used with object), -kled, -kling.

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Word Origin & History

tinkle

"to make a gentle ringing sound," 1382, possibly a frequentative form of tinken "to ring, jingle," perhaps of imitative origin. Meaning "to urinate" is recorded from 1960, from childish talk.

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tinkle definition

in.
to urinate. (Mostly juvenile use. Usually objectionable.) : Jimmy, be sure and tinkle before we leave.
n.
urine. (Essentially juvenile. Usually objectionable.) : There's tinkle on the bathroom floor.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"It was interesting, when awakened at midnight, to watch the grotesque and fiend-like forms and motions of some one of the party, who, not being able to sleep, had got up silently to arouse the fire.... Thus aroused, I, too, brought fresh fuel to the fire, and then rambled along the sandy shore in the moonlight, hoping to meet a moose come down to drink, or else a wolf. The little rill tinkled the louder, and peopled all the wilderness for me; and the glassy smoothness of the sleeping lake, laving the shores of a new world, with the dark, fantastic rocks rising here and there from its surface, made a scene not easily described. It has left such an impression of stern, yet gentle, wildness on my memory as will not be soon effaced.... When next we awoke, the moon and the stars were shining again, and there were signs of dawn in the east."

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