tinkled

Verb

tinkle (third-person singular simple present tinkles, present participle tinkling, simple past and past participle tinkled)

1. (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
   • The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
2. (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
3. (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
   • The butler tinkled dinner.
4. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
   • And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.1700, [John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
5. (informal, intransitive) To urinate.

   Synonyms:

   urinate

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