Meaning of atinkle | Babel Free

Definitions

Making a tinkling sound.

not-comparable

Examples

“The mountain vale, arousing Ocean, sings, And all the air’s a-tinkle as with strings;”

“1894, Kenneth Grahame, “The Fairy Wicket” in Pagan Papers, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, p. 91, […] every copse and hedge-row seems a-tinkle with faint elfish laughter.”

“O Love! were you the hooded hawk upon my hand that flutters, Its collar-band of gleaming bells atinkle as I ride,”

“Impossibles march gaily for Gay Pride, ashaming any spectator a marcher would yearn to be matey with, mincing atinkle with bangles and lavender marcel”

“Somewhere inside a full-mouthed bell tolled; its reverberations set the chandelier a-tinkle […]”

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