tinkle
About 0.29 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
- verb To cause to tinkle.
- verb To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
The butler tinkled dinner.
- verb To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
- verb To urinate.
- noun A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
- noun A telephone call.
Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
- noun An act of urination.
Similar words
tink clink ting chink jingle piss wee-wee pee wee trinkle
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Word family
tinkled tinkles tinkling
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