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tinkles

tinkles is the plural of tinkle.

Meaning of tinkle

Noun

tinkle (countable and uncountable, plural tinkles)

  1. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
    • The Man's Wife heard the tinkle-tinkle of little stones and loose earth falling off the roadway, and the sliding roar of the man and horse going down.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 56
  2. (UK, informal) A telephone call.
    • Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
    Synonyms:
    call, ring
  3. (euphemistic, informal) An act of urination.
  4. (euphemistic, informal) Urine.

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Proper noun capitalized: Tinkles

Tinkles

  1. (plural) plural of Tinkle

Questions about tinkles

What is tinkles the plural of?
Tinkles is the plural of tinkle.
What part of speech is tinkles?
Tinkles is a proper noun.

Words near tinkles in the dictionary

  1. tinkle the ivories
  2. tinkle-down
  3. tinkled
  4. tinkler
  5. tinklers
  6. tinkles
  7. tinklesome
  8. tinklier
  9. tinkliest
  10. tinkling
  11. tinklingly

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