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plural tinklings
A tinkle; a tinkling sound. quotations examples
The merry piano tinklings were gone.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 591
(Jamaica) The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger. examples
The action of the verb to tinkle examples
not comparable
That tinkles. quotations examples
American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, you are like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Paul's Letter to American Christians”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, page 163
(obsolete) That works as a tinker
present participle and gerund of tinkle examples