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▪ I. tinkle, n.|ˈtɪŋk(ə)l|
[f. tinkle v.1 (sense 2).]
a. The act or action of tinkling; a sharp light ringing sound, such as that made by a small bell, or by pieces of metal, glass, or the like, struck together, etc.
1804J. Grahame Sabbath, etc. (1808) 66 Its runnel by degrees Diminishing, the murmur turns a tinkle. 1825Scott Betrothed ix, The shrill tinkle of a harp. 1847Emerson Merlin i, No jingling serenader's art, Nor tinkle of piano strings. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 262 Now with a cymbal slim would a sharp shrill tinkle awaken. 1877–8Henley in Ballades, etc. (Canterb. Poets) 77 Of ice and glass the tinkle, Pellucid, silver-shrill.
b. fig. in reference to speech or verse. Cf. tinkle v.1 2 c, 3 b.
1725P. Walker Life A. Peden To Rdr. (1827) 17 None of their Addresses have had the Tinkle or Sound of the Declarations and Faithful Warnings of the General Assemblies of this Church. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad Introd. 141 note, There are a race of Critics..who would strip poetry of all her ornaments,..who would leave her nothing but the neatness, the cadence, and the tinkle of verse. 1789Belsham Ess. I. xii. 226 What Dryden calls the tinkle in the close of the couplet. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. ii. 114 The tinkle of the words is all that strikes the ears.
c. Reduplicated, expressing repetition of such sounds; also as adv.
1682Bells of Oxford in Wit & Drollery 302 Tincle, tincle, goes the little Bell, To call the Students home. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S. Co. 260 There comes the tinkle-tinkle of a bell. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta I. 149 They make, as the daughters of Jerusalem, a tinkle-tinkle as they go.
d. colloq. A telephone call. Usu. in phr. to give (someone) a tinkle. Cf. ring n.2 3 c.
1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxiii. 241 As soon as we find 'em I'll give you a tinkle on the blower. 1939N. Monsarrat This is Schoolroom ix. 207 Shall I give you a tinkle later? 1949S. Gibbons Matchmaker 51 And then not another word for three weeks! Not even a tinkle to ask if my cold was better! 1959‘D. Buckingham’ Wind Tunnel xix. 153 Shall we give Robin a tinkle and tell him that you're home? 1960H. E. Bates Aspidistra in Babylon 143 Give us a tinkle. 1980B. Bainbridge Winter Garden xii. 89 ‘Next time you're in London,’ advised Ashburner, ‘give me a tinkle and I'll take you to my Oxfam shop.’
e. colloq. An act of urination. Cf. tinkle v. 6.
1965J. R. Hetherington Selina's Aunt 54 Tinkle (have a).., No. 1. 1974E. Brawley Rap (1975) ii. xiv. 239 And went over and had a tinkle. 1978C. MacLeod Rest you Merry (1979) vi. 57, I was making my tinkle.
▪ II. tinkle, v.1|ˈtɪŋk(ə)l|
Forms: 4 tyncle(n, 4–6 tynkle, 5 -kel, -kyll, 6 -ckle, tinkel, 6–7 tincle, 6–8 tinckle, 6– tinkle.
[Tinkle has the form of a frequentative of tink v. (see -le 3), which also suits the chronology. In some MSS. of the later Wyclif version, it takes the place of the earlier tink, as said of a cymbal; and it is frequent from 1450 of the sound of bells, etc.
In both Wyclif versions tyncle is also used of the ‘ringing’ and ‘tingling’ of the ears; but in some MSS. of the later version tingle is substituted. In the 16th c. tinckle is said even of the nose. Here it might be thought to represent OE. tinclian ‘to tickle’, L. titillare, if there were any trace of that vb. in ME. But it is to be remembered that L. tinnīre, which Wyclif rendered tynke and tyncle, was used of the ringing both of metals and of the ears, and even in the sense ‘tingle’. In mod. use, tinkle may be said of the ears in the sense ‘ring’, implying sound objective or subjective, but the thrilling nervous sensation is expressed by tingle; ‘my ears tingle’, like ‘my hands tingle’: see tingle v. Cf. WFlem. tinkelen, to tingle (as the fingers with the cold), also said of the sound of a drop falling into water.]
I.
1. intr. Of the ears: To ring, to tingle: = tingle v. 1 (now rare). † Of the nose or other parts: = tingle v. 2, tickle v. 2 (obs.).
1382Wyclif 1 Sam. iii. 11 Loo, Y doo a word in Yrael, the which who so euere herith, bothe his eeris shulen tynclen [1388 tyncle, rynge]. ― Jer. xix. 3 Eche that shal heren it, tyncle hys eres [1388 hise eeris tyngle]. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 589 Who so heareth of it his eares shall tinckle. a1600J. Conybeare Lett. & Exerc. (1905) 40 Nasturtium called cresses being eaten doth make the nose tinckle. 1700Dryden Theod. & Hon. 94 His Ears tinckled, and his Colour fled. 1722Ramsay Three Bonnets iii. 44, I ha'e a secret to impart..will set baith your lugs a tinkling. 1871R. Ellis Catullus li. 11 With inward Sound the full ears tinkle.
II.
2. a. intr. To give forth a series of short light sharp ringing sounds. Said of bells, musical instruments, and other resonant objects (cf. tinkle n.).
a1400–50Alexander 1385 (Dubl. MS.) Now tynkyll vp taburnes þat all þe towne ringes. c1440Wyclif's Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 1, Y am maad as bras sownynge, or a cymbal tynclynge [1382 tynkynge, 1388 (MS. 1420) tynkynge, (MS. 1450) tinglinge]. 1526–1563 [see tinkling ppl. a.1]. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 69 Wee could not sleepe for little bels tinckling all night. 1697Dryden æneid ii. 745 [The javelin] faintly tinckl'd on the brasen Shield. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. Ded. iii, The spinnet tinkling with her voice. 1819J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 50 A sheepbell tinkles on the heath. 1831Poe Bells i, How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! 1873T. W. Higginson Old port Days ix. 216 The dry snow tinkled beneath my feet.
fig.1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. xii. 281 The bell alwayes must tinkle as they are pleased to think. [Cf. tink v.1 1.]
b. To flow or move with a tinkling sound.
1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall xvii, A small rill tinkled along close by. 1851Hawthorne Snow Image, My Kinsman (1879) 248 The latch tinkled into its place. 1855Browning Love among Ruins i, Our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward through the twilight. 1859Kingsley Misc. II. 288 A stream tinkling on from one rock-basin to another. 1871Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 29 The street-cars that slowly tinkled up and down.
c. transf. To rime or jingle.
1626,1822[see tinkling ppl. a.1 b]. 1684Dryden Ep. to Earl Roscomon 14 A kind of hobbling prose, That limped along and tinkled in the close. 1711E. Fenton Ep. to Southerne Poems (1717) 82.
3. a. intr. Of a person: To produce such a sound.
17..Bob Norice ix. in Child Ballads iv. (1886) 267/2 But whan he came to Lord Barnet's castel He tinklet at the ring [cf. tirl v.3 3 a]. 1809Malkin Gil Blas v. i. ⁋29 Our host..was tinkling on a cracked guitar. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun x, The musicians scraped, tinkled, or blew.
b. fig. To utter empty sounds or senseless words, talk idly, prate.
1641R. Baillie Parallel Liturgy w. Mass-bk., etc. 54 All the question wee and they have long tinkled on for the worshipping of Saints. 1645Milton Tetrach. ii. i. Wks. 1851 IV. 201 We are but crackt cimbals, we do but tinckle, we know nothing, we do nothing. 1646R. Baillie Let. to Henderson 16 May, If that man now go to tinkle on bishops, and delinquents, and such foolish toys, it seems he is mad. 1781Cowper Conversat. 892 The tide of speech..No longer labours merely to produce The pomp of sound, or tinkle without use. 1871[see tinkling ppl. a.1 b].
4. trans.
a. To make known, call attention to, or express by tinkling (lit. or fig.).
1562in Blomefield Norfolk (1806) IV. 355 note, A woman for whoredom to ryde on a cart..and tynkled with a bason. 1861All Year Round V. 13 Flattery in the fluent phrase that just Tinkled the tender moral o'er the dust Of greatness. 1862Sala Seven Sons I. iv. 76 The multitude of clocks..were tinkling out the hour of nine.
b. To affect, attract, or summon by tinkling. to tinkle bees: see ting v. 1 b.
1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 29 Of Troy seat yf haplye the rumoure Youre ears hath tinckled. 1639J. Saltmarsh Policy §130. 111 Bees are best tinckled together when they rise. 1832J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. in Blackw. Mag. Feb. 264 The very kirk..whose small bell tinkled the joyous school-boy to worship.
c. = tickle v. 3. rare.
1883W. M. Adamson in Evang. Union Worthies 316 The flimsy sensational preacher, whose desire is to tinkle the ear, more than touch the conscience.
5. To cause (something) to tinkle or make a short light ringing sound; † to produce by tinkling.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 74 Moonewise Coribants on brasse their od harmonye tinckling. Ibid. 80 Thee place she tinckled [omnem Implevit clamore locum]. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 209 Many drums were beaten and basons tinckled about them. 1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. i, She was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinnet. 1834Southey Doctor i, I finished my glass of punch, tinkled the spoon against its side. 1900H. G. Graham Soc. Life Scot. in 18th C. vii. i. (1901) 245 The ‘bell pennies’—for tolling or tinkling the ‘dead bell’ before the coffin at funerals.
6. intr. To urinate. Cf. tinkle n. e. colloq.
1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 547/1 Tinkle..v.i., to urinate. Common usage by small children; humorously used by adults. 1972Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 17 June 77/2 The handy man..picked the wrong moment to urinate on the roses. ‘He's been tinkling on the roses for twenty-five years.’ 1976‘E. McBain’ Guns (1977) vii. 198 I'm looking for the loo... I really have to tinkle.
Hence tinkled |ˈtɪŋk(ə)ld| ppl. a., made to tinkle.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 160 The tinkled latch startled her.
▪ III. † tinkle, v.2 Obs.
[Back-formation from tinkler1.]
= tinker v. 1. Hence tinkling ppl. a.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. ix, I once did know a tinkling Pewterer. 1630B. Jonson New Inn i. i, Who tinkles then, or personates Tom Tinker? |