Tinkle

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
   countable, uncountable
3. A telephone call.
   UK, countable, informal, uncountable
4. An act of urination.
   countable, euphemistic, informal, uncountable
5. Urine.
   countable, euphemistic, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“She laughed, her voice a tinkle in the silence of the circular chamber.”

“At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run⟳ into was only the Christmas tree. . . . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.”

“Give⟳ me a tinkle when you arrive⟳.”

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