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Tinkle

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)
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tin=kle

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Tinkle has 1 sense

Verb Tinkle has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Tinklen. 
     The common guillemot.  [1913 Webster]
Tinklev. i. [Freq. of tink. See Tink, Tingle.].
  •  To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.  [1913 Webster]
    "As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."  [1913 Webster]
    "The sprightly horse
    Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.  [1913 Webster]
    "And his ears tinkled, and the color fled."  [1913 Webster]
Tinklev. t. 
     To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.  [1913 Webster]
Tinklen. 
     A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Tinkle, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. & tr. make or cause to make a succession of short light ringing sounds.
2 intr. colloq. urinate.
--n.
1 a tinkling sound.
2 Brit. colloq. a telephone call (will give you a tinkle on Monday).
3 colloq. an act of urinating.

Etymology
ME f. obs. tink to chink (imit.)

THESAURUS

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

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Tinkle

Faintness

N faintness, faint sound, whisper, breath, undertone, underbreath, murmur, hum, susurration, tinkle, still small voice, hoarseness, raucity, inaudible, scarcely audible, just audible, low, dull, stifled, muffled, hoarse, husky, gentle, soft, faint, floating, purling, flowing, whispered, liquid, soothing, dulcet, susurrant, susurrous, in a whisper, with bated breath, sotto voce, between the teeth, aside, piano, pianissimo, d la sourdine, out of earshot inaudibly, (ii) SPECIFIC SOUNDS.

VB whisper, breathe, murmur, purl, hum, gurgle, ripple, babble, flow, tinkle, mutter, susurrate, steal on the ear, melt in the air, float on the air.

Resonance

VB resound, reverberate, reecho, resonate, ring, jingle, gingle, chink, clink, tink, tinkle, chime, gurgle, plash, goggle, echo, ring in the ear.

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