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tinkle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tinkershire \Tink"er*shire\, Tinkle \Tin"kle\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]
Tinkle \Tin"kle\, v. i. [Freq. of tink. See Tink, Tingle.]
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To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
--1 Cor. xiii. 1.The sprightly horse Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
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To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
And his ears tinkled, and the color fled.
--Dryden.
Tinkle \Tin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinkling.] To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
Tinkle \Tin"kle\, n.
A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.
--Cowper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to make a gentle ringing sound," late 14c., possibly a frequentative form of tinken "to ring, jingle," perhaps of imitative origin. Meaning "to urinate" is recorded from 1960, from childish talk. Related: Tinkled; tinkling. As a noun from 1680s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes. 2 (context UK informal English) A telephone call. 3 (context informal euphemism English) An act of urination. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell. 2 (context intransitive informal juvenile English) To urinate. 3 (context transitive English) To cause to tinkle. 4 (context transitive English) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling. 5 To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Tinkle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Donald W. Tinkle (1930–1980), herpetologist, ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan
- Lon Tinkle (1906–1980), historian, author, book critic, and professor who specialized in the history of Texas
- Wayne Tinkle (born 1966), American college basketball coach
Tinkle is an Indian fortnightly magazine, published mainly in India. Originally owned by the India Book House, the Tinkle brand was acquired by ACK Media in 2007. The magazine contains comics, stories, puzzles, quizzes, contests and other features targeted at school children, although its readership includes many adults as well. It is published in English and syndicated in many Indian languages like Malayalam, Assamese etc.
Tinkle has also announced its first fortnightly issue - the July 2016 issue. The second issue arrived mid-July 2016, a first for the magazine.
Anant Pai, the founding editor of the magazine, is known to his readers as Uncle Pai. The idea behind starting a comic book series devoted to Indian culture and history came to Pai from a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in February 1967, in which participants could easily answer questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to reply to the question "In the Ramayana, who was Rama's mother?"
He left his job at Times of India, and started ACK the same year, with the help of late G.L.Mirchandani of IBH, (who also took charge as the CMD of Tinkle late when it was formed), when most other publishers had rejected the concept. Later, he took on the role of writer, editor and publisher. The series went on to become a publishing milestone for the Indian comic book scene, selling over 90 million copies of about 440 titles (as per last count till the end of 2008).
He has also launched the popular Amar Chitra Katha series.
The first issue was launched in April 1980. Total 622 issues have been printed so far. The magazine carries comic stories and regular columns of interest to school children. Tinkle enjoys great popularity, and has been an integral part of growing up in India in the last two decades. Characters like Suppandi and Shikari Shambu that appeared first in the pages of the magazine have nationwide recognition. Readers send more than 200 letters with stories and other features to be considered for printing in the magazine. The wholesome combination of educational and entertainment that defines Tinkle has many celebrity fans in India, including the former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. There is an official website for Tinkle, which contains puzzles and games.
Usage examples of "tinkle".
The Pope would die and the circus would actually begin with the tawdry tinkle of the hurdy-gurdy and monkeys on chains, the trumpet fanfare of a Fellini movie and the clowns and all the freaks and aerialists joining hands, dancing, capering across the screen.
The alchemist thoughtfully stroked his beard, setting the bells tinkling.
It may be apocryphal that some families dressed their piano legs in little skirts to avoid moral distress to visitors, but it is certainly true that chamber-pots came with a crocheted cover to serve as a baffle so that anyone passing without would not hear the unseemly tinkle of the person passing within.
Rawnie coughed again, her body shaking, her bangles tinkling and jangling.
The burn, small with the summer drought, made a far-away tinkling, the sweet scents of pine and fern were about him, the dense boskage where it met the sky had in the dark a sharp marmoreal outline.
The hoop was fastened with straps to his shoulders and around the edge of the circler sat three hooded falcons fitted with tinkling bells.
Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin workers, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness.
Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin workers, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and ruling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness.
Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hard-hats and carapaces of the Timkin workers, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness.
Lo, they dight the feast in Godhome, and fair are the tables spread, Late come, but well-beloved is every war-worn head, And the God-folk and the Fathers, as these cross the tinkling bridge, Crowd round and crave for stories of the Battle on the Ridge.
It was really surprising what you could pick up on this game -- handfuls of small tinkle that often added up to well over a dirham, filthy torn notes that the donors probably thought carried plague, the absurd largesse of holiday drunks.
There followed a rolling as of kettledrums, a booming and clanking, basins struck together, a gong rang out, and the end of it all was a tinkling, transitory, tragically cacophonous finale.
The Tartar horses shot off, the bells tinkled, the kibitka flew over the snow.
Grinning horribly, Knoop made a sudden leap in the air and came down square on the AWOL bag, which went crunch, tinkle in a sickening way.
A piercing tinkle from down the hill caused her to draw her elbows in, and close her lips even more tightly.