Definition of "tinkle"

tinkle

/ˈtɪŋkəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present tinkles, present participle tinkling, simple past and past participle tinkled
1. (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
  Quotations
  The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
  1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
  With a sound like tinkling bells, far off in a land of shepherds hidden by some hill, the waters of many fountains turned again home.
  1906, Lord Dunsany , London: William Heineman, page 1
2. (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
3. (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
4. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  Quotations
  And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.
  1700, [John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
5. (intransitive, informal) To urinate.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural tinkles
1. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
  Quotations
  She laughed, her voice a tinkle in the silence of the circular chamber.
  1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 97
  At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
  1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus
2. (UK, informal) A telephone call.
3. (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.
4. (informal, euphemistic) Urine.

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