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atinkle

/əˈtɪŋkəl/

atinkle adjective: making a tinkling sound.

Adjective

atinkle (not comparable)

  1. Making a tinkling sound.
    • The mountain vale, arousing Ocean, sings,
      And all the air’s a-tinkle as with strings;1876, Venier Voldo, A Song of America, New York: Hanscom, Canto 2, page 33
    • […] every copse and hedge-row seems a-tinkle with faint elfish laughter.1894, Kenneth Grahame, “The Fairy Wicket” in Pagan Papers, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, p. 91

Forms of atinkle

alternative forma-tinkle

Origin of atinkle

From a- + tinkle.

Words that rhyme with atinkle

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about atinkle

What does atinkle mean?
Atinkle means making a tinkling sound.
What part of speech is atinkle?
Atinkle is an adjective.
How do you pronounce atinkle?
Atinkle is pronounced /əˈtɪŋkəl/.

Words near atinkle in the dictionary

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  3. atingle
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