EGAVE

tinkle

About 0.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
    The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
  2. verb To cause to tinkle.
  3. verb To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
    The butler tinkled dinner.
  4. verb To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  5. verb To urinate.
  6. noun A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
  7. noun A telephone call.
    Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
  8. noun An act of urination.

Similar words

tink clink ting chink jingle piss wee-wee pee wee trinkle

Often followed by

of and in as on from with like the

Word family

tinkled tinkles tinkling

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