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tinkly

tinkly adjective: having a tinkling sound.

Adjective

tinkly (comparative tinklier, superlative tinkliest)

  1. Having a tinkling sound.
    • The tinkly piano-playing soon got on my nerves.

Forms of tinkly

comparativetinklier
superlativetinkliest

Origin of tinkly

From tinkle + -y.

Questions about tinkly

What does tinkly mean?
Tinkly means having a tinkling sound.
What part of speech is tinkly?
Tinkly is an adjective.

Words near tinkly in the dictionary

  1. tinklier
  2. tinkliest
  3. tinkling
  4. tinklingly
  5. tinklings
  6. tinkly
  7. Tinkoff
  8. Tinkov
  9. tinks
  10. TINLC
  11. tinless

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