tinkling

verb

  1. 1

    To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.

    “The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.”
  2. 2

    To cause to tinkle.

  3. 3

    To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.

    “The butler tinkled dinner.”
  4. 4

    To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.

  5. 5

    To urinate.

noun

  1. 1

    A tinkle; a tinkling sound.

  2. 2

    The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.

adjective

  1. 1

    That tinkles.

    “"A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you.”
  2. 2

    That works as a tinker

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