[syn: tinkle, tink, clink, chink]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tinkershire \Tink"er*shire\, Tinkle \Tin"kle\, n. (Zool.)
The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tinkle \Tin"kle\, v. i. [Freq. of tink. See Tink, Tingle.]
1. To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a
piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
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As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. --1 Cor.
xiii. 1.
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The sprightly horse
Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. --Dodsley.
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2. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
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And his ears tinkled, and the color fled. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tinkle \Tin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinkled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tinkling.]
To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tinkle \Tin"kle\, n.
A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.
--Cowper.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tinkle
n 1: a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell [syn:
ting, tinkle]
v 1: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle,
tink, clink, chink]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "tinkle":
babble, bump, change ringing, chat, chatter, chime, chiming, chink,
clack, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, click, clink,
clop, clump, clunk, crump, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging,
dingle, dong, donging, dull thud, flick, flump, gab, gong, jangle,
jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling,
pad, pat, patter, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pitapat,
pitter-patter, plink, plump, plunk, pop, prattle, rap, rattle,
ring, ring changes, ringing, sound, sound a knell, tap, thud,
thump, tick, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkling,
tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, tunk, yak