tinkle
noun/ˈtɪŋkl/
/ˈtɪŋkl/
[usually singular]- (also tinklinga light, high ringing sound/ˈtɪŋklɪŋ//ˈtɪŋklɪŋ/[singular, uncountable])
- the tinkle of glass breaking
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- faint
- gentle
- little
- …
- hear
- with a tinkle
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- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) a phone call
- (informal) an act of urinating
- to have a tinkle
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘tingle’): frequentative of obsolete tink ‘to chink or clink’, of imitative origin.
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