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have a tinkle

have a tinkle is the alternative form of take a tinkle.

Meaning of take a tinkle

Verb

take a tinkle (third-person singular simple present takes a tinkle, present participle taking a tinkle, simple past took a tinkle, past participle taken a tinkle)

  1. (childish, informal) To urinate.
    • After we climbed out the window, Vera went behind a bush to take a tinkle, I tried to follow her, but she pushed me back and then giggled a little.2010, Edward H’ Wolf, “The Light inside the Darkness” (chapter 12), in Secluded Mansion Nights, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 101

Forms of have a tinkle

third-person singular presenthas a tinkle
present participlehaving a tinkle
past participlehad a tinkle
pasthad a tinkle

Questions about have a tinkle

What is have a tinkle the alternative form of?
Have a tinkle is the alternative form of take a tinkle.

Words near have a tinkle in the dictionary

  1. have a thing
  2. have a thing going on
  3. have a tiger by the tail
  4. have a time
  5. have a time of it
  6. have a tinkle
  7. have a turtle's head
  8. have a visual on
  9. have a way with
  10. have a whack at
  11. have a whale of a time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: have a tinkle (page history and authors); take a tinkle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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