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▪ I. tinkling, vbl. n.|ˈtɪŋklɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
I. The action of tinkle v.1
1. The (subjective) ringing of the ears. Now rare.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xvii. clv. (W. de W.) T vij/2 Senuey..dooth awaye tynkelynge [Bodl. MS. tingelinge] & ryngynge of the eere. 1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1553) C vj, Deafenesse by wynde..in the eare,..causeth tyncklyng in the heade. 1635R. Brathwait Arcad. Pr. 104, I feele a perpetuall tinckling and sowing [? sowning] in mine eares. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 145 Affected..with a difficulty of hearing, and a tinkling in the ears.
2. A succession of short light ringing sounds, as of a cymbal or a small bell; jingling. Also fig.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. xiii. 35 A cymball, that with his vnprofitable tinklyng troubleth the eares. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 32 The Papists at the tinckling of a little Bell, lift up the consecrated Bread. 1651Davenant Gondibert Pref. (1673) 9 Old Men..think it lyes in a kinde of tinkling of words. 1750Gray Elegy 8 Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. 1784Cowper Task vi. 1021 Idle tinkling of a minstrel's lyre. 1800Hull Advertiser 8 Nov. 3/3 Pretended half-guineas.., and nothing but the test of tinkling can lead to detection. 1881Broadhouse Mus. Acoustics 197 That peculiar high inharmonious noise which we are accustomed to call ‘tinkling’.
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3. Short for tinkling grackle: see next, c.
▪ II. tinkling, ppl. a.1|ˈtɪŋklɪŋ|
[f. tinkle v.1 + -ing2.]
That tinkles; making a short light ringing sound, or a succession of such; jingling.
c1440[see tinkle v.1 2]. 1526Tindale 1 Cor. xiii. 1, I were even as soundynge brasse, and as a tynklynge Cymball. 1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. vii. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 75 Lyke soundand metell, or ane tincland cimbal. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iii. 373 Bees..when they heare any tinkling [ed. 1651 tingling] sound, will tarry behind. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess., Complaint vii, The tinckling strings of thy loose minstrelsie. 1717Pope Eloisa 158 The grots that echo to the tinkling rills. 1829Scott Anne of G. xiii, A long train of mules—a jolly tinkling team. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid i, There came the tinkling musical echo of a bell.
b. fig. of speech (or a speaker), or verse.
1626B. Jonson Fort. Isles Wks. (Rtldg.) 650/1 In Rhime! fine tinckling Rhime! and flowand Verse! 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. Pref., M.'s Wks. 1851 VII. 10 Them, I say, together with their tinkling Advocate,..we shall e'en let whine on, till they cry their eyes out. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. v. (1869) 120 Keep to your sounding generalities, your tinkling phrases. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. i. 24 Beware, a tinkling fool to be!
c. tinkling grackle, also simply tinkling: a bird, a species of grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) found in Jamaica; so called from its note.
1847Gosse Birds Jamaica 217 Tinkling Grakle. Ibid. 219 Like the Ani, the Tinkling feeds on the parasites of cattle. 1890Blackw. Mag. June 787 The tinkling may be seen feeding greedily in the pastures. 1896Newton Dict. Birds, Tinkling or Tin-tin, the name in Jamaica for one of the American Grackles, Quiscalus crassirostris.
Hence ˈtinklingly adv., in a tinkling way.
1894Crockett Mad Sir Uchtred 25 As she spoke she laughed tinklingly.
▪ III. tinkling, ppl. a.2
see tinkle v.2 |