tinklen.int.

Brit.

/ˈtɪŋkl/, U.S.

/ˈtɪŋk(ə)l/

Forms: 1600s tincle, 1600s– tinkle. Also reduplicated.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: tinkle v.¹

Etymology: < tinkle v.¹ Compare earlier tinkling n.¹ and tinkle-tankle n., and also earlier tink int. and tink n.¹ Compare further tingle int. and n.² and tingle-tangle n.¹

A. n.

1. The action or an instance of tinkling; a sharp light ringing sound, such as that made by a small bell, by pieces of metal, glass, etc., struck together, or by the strings of a musical instrument being plucked.

a. Considered as a single or continuous sound of this kind.

ΚΠ

1668 T. Jones Brit. Lang. in its Lustre Tingc, a tinkle or blow on a Bell, Pot or Kettle.

1742 tr. C. de Fieux de Mouhy Busy-body II. iv. ii. 158 One Tinkle of a Bell [Fr. un coup de cloche] brings them together.

1825 W. Scott Betrothed ix, in Tales Crusaders I. 156 The shrill tinkle of a harp.

1937 V. Woolf Years (1968) 43 There was a sudden roar of laughter; then the tinkle of a piano.

2010 A. Joseph Saraswati Park xiii. 160 There was a small kerfuffle, then a crash and tinkle: the chai boy had dropped a glass.

b. Reduplicated, sometimes with other imitative terms, expressing repetition of such sounds.

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1793 R. Burns Let. Sept. (1985) II. 237 My hobby-horse..gets so enamoured with the tinkle-gingle, tinkle-gingle of it own bells, that it is sure to run..the bedlam Jockey, quite beyond any useful point.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 260 There comes the tinkle-tinkle of a bell.

1984 R. Dahl Boy 83 All around the dormitory..was heard the tinkle-tinkle of little boys peeing into their pots.

2. figurative. With reference to speech or verse. Cf. tinkle v.¹ 5a, 5b. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > tinkle or ting

twinkling13..

tinglinga1398

tinklinga1398

ting1611

tinkle-tanklinga1625

tinkle-tankle1642

tinniment1656

tinkle1722

tingle1754

sprinkle1843

ting-a-ling?1850

tankling1864

plinkety1891

ting-a-ring1931

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > jingling of rhyme

jargon1570

jingle1661

chimea1674

ting-tang1686

ding-dong1709

clinka1716

tinkle1776

tintinnabulum1782

tink1890

1722 A. N. Circular Let. Christian Friendship to Lady Mayoress 10 What a Noise and Tinkle did Daniel Williams and his Baxtarian Party..make about Sincerity; and seem'd more fervent and zealous for Sincerity..than was due or fit.

1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. cxli (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.

1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music ii. 114 The tinkle of the words is all that strikes the ears.

1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Mar. 230/2 After Sir Thomas Browne's harmonies on mutability what a tinkle of words is this over ‘the congregated bones of the great men of past times’.

3. British colloquial. A telephone call. Usually in to give (a person) a tinkle. Cf. ring n.² 4.Originally with reference to the electric bell used with a landline telephone to signal an incoming call.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate with by telephone [verb (transitive)]

telephone1877

call1879

ring1880

to call up1882

phone1889

to give a ring1895

buzz1914

to give (a person) a tinkle1921

to dial up1924

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > call or message

call1878

telephone call1878

telelogue1880

telepheme1882

ring1895

phone call1911

buzz1913

phone message1913

tinkle1921

phone1922

telephone1935

1921 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 21 Feb. 5/7 (advt.) Just give us a tinkle and we will bring to your door your order or samples to choose from.

1949 S. Gibbons Matchmaker 51 And then not another word for three weeks! Not even a tinkle to ask if my cold was better!

2006 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 16 Apr. The actor recently declared that he would be giving them a tinkle to set up play dates for his and their new babies.

4. colloquial. An act of urination. Cf. tinkle v.¹ 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination

pissinga1398

urine1561

urination1599

staling1601

miction1663

urining1668

piss?1837

piddle1870

micturating1879

pee1880

pee-wee1909

wet1925

peeing1929

leak1934

Jimmy Riddle1937

wee-wee1937

tinkle1939

run-off1944

slash1950

No. 11965

wee1968

widdle1969

gypsy's kiss1971

Jimmy1971

whizz1971

gypsy's1972

void1980

wazz1994

1939 J. C. Foster & M. L. Mattson Nursery-school Educ. 122 At an early age, such words as leaky, tinkle, rainy, and little job for urination.

1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) ii. xiv. 239 And went over and had a tinkle.

2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 11 May (Review section) 4/3 I found myself in a talking toilet the other night...There I am, taking a tinkle, and a voice from behind the mirror begins to wax about some new brand of men's deodorant.

B. int.

A representation of a sharp light ringing sound, such as that made by a small bell, by pieces of metal, glass, etc., struck together, or by the strings of a musical instrument being plucked. Usually reduplicated.

ΚΠ

?1673 Addit. Sheet Musical Compan. 1 Tinkle, tinkle, ting, goes the small Bell at Nine, to call the Beerers home.

1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend iv. 44 Pe. When they wou'd speak with one another, what's the Call? Ja. Tinkle Tinkle. D. Pe. A Bell? Ja. It is.

1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. 37 You drop off again, and get about an eyeful of sleep: lo, it is tinkle, tinkle, for matins.

2015 Japan News (Nexis) 16 July 11 Tinkle, tinkle. Tinkle, tinkle—the refreshing sounds of Japanese wind chimes known as furin bring an air of coolness to the sweltering summer heat.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tinklev.¹

Brit.

/ˈtɪŋkl/, U.S.

/ˈtɪŋk(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English tencle, Middle English tenelis (imperative plural, transmission error), Middle English tyncle, Middle English tynkyll, 1500s tinckel, 1500s tynckle, 1500s tynkell, 1500s tynkld (past tense), 1500s–1600s tincle, 1500s–1700s tinckle, 1500s– tinkle; N.E.D (1912) also records a form Middle English tynkle.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or perhaps (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: an element of imitative origin, -le suffix 3; tingle v.

Etymology: Either (i) < an element of imitative origin (compare later tink int.) + -le suffix 3, or perhaps (ii) a variant or alteration of tingle v. (see note). With sense 2 compare earlier tinkling adj.¹ and tinkling n.¹ 2 and later tink v.² Compare tinking adj., tinking n.¹, and also tingling n., tingling adj.Compare classical Latin tinnīre (of metallic objects) to ring, (of the ears) to be affected by a ringing sensation (see tinnitus n.), which is translated (in both its senses) in some of the earliest attestations of tinkle v.¹, tinkling n.¹, and tinkling adj.¹ Perhaps compare also Old English tinclian to tickle (see tickle v.¹, which compare also for the semantic development). Relationship with similar words. In Middle English, words of this group used with reference to a physical sensation (see sense 1) sometimes vary with forms of tingle v. in different manuscripts of the same or closely related texts. Similarly, Middle English uses with reference to the sound (especially of a bell) sometimes vary with forms without the -l- (compare tinking n.¹ and tinking adj.), or with forms with -g- (compare the variation shown in quot. c1450 at tinkling adj.¹ 1). This is especially the case in different versions of the Wycliffite Bible and texts related to this. Specific senses. With sense 4 compare earlier tickle v.¹ 3. With sense 6 compare slightly earlier tinkle n. 4.

1. intransitive. Of the ears: to be affected by a ringing sensation (cf. tingle v. 2). Of the nose or other part of the body: to be affected by a tingling sensation (cf. tingle v. 1, tickle v.¹ 2). Now rare (only regional).

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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > tingle > of the ears

tinklea1382

tinglea1425

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > prick or tingle > suffer pricking or tingling

tinklea1382

tinglea1425

sowc1425

dindle1483

pricklea1661

prinkle1721

prick1850

pringle1889

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [verb (intransitive)] > of ears

tinklea1382

tinglea1425

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xix. 3 Eche that shal heren it, tyncle hys eres [a1425 L.V. hise eeris tyngle; L. tinniant].

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 589 Who so heareth of it his eares shall tinckle.

c1600 J. Conybeare Lett. & Exerc. (1905) 40 Nasturtium called cresses being eaten doth make the nose tinckle.

1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Theodore & Honoria in Fables 260 His Ears tinckled, and his Colour fled.

1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iii. 21 I have a Secret to impart..will set baith your Lugs a tinkling.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems li. 11 With inward Sound the full ears tinkle.

1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. S. Pembrokeshire 50/1 Tinkle, to tingle.

a. intransitive. Of a bell, musical instrument, or other resonant object: to make a series of sharp light ringing sounds on being struck. Cf. tinkle n. and int.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > tinkle

twinkle13..

chimea1340

tingc1400

dindlec1440

tinklea1500

tink1528

tingle1582

tanglea1652

trinkle1827

tankle1894

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)] > tinkle

tinklea1500

a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) l. 1385 Now tynkyll [c1450 Ashm. tenelis, perhaps read tenclis] vp taburnes þat all þe towne ringes.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 69 Wee could not sleepe for little bels tinckling all night.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 256 [The javelin] faintly tinckl'd on the Brazen Shield.

1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (new ed.) I. Ded. iii The spinnet tinkling with her voice.

1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 50 A sheepbell tinkles on the heath.

1831 E. A. Poe Bells i How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!

1873 T. W. Higginson Oldport Days ix. 216 The dry snow tinkled beneath my feet.

1971 W. Golding Scorpion God (1973) 23 She dropped her arms and the bracelets tinkled as they fell to her wrists.

2006 Countryman Dec. 25/1 Splinters of glass tinkled as they fell on already-broken glass on the lino, slates shuttered off the roof and smashed as they hit the stone flags.

b. transitive. Chiefly of a person: to cause (something) to make a series of short light ringing sounds, esp. by striking or playing a bell, musical instrument, or other resonant object. Also spec. to play (a keyboard instrument, or its keys) lightly so as to produce such sounds (cf. tickle v.¹ 6a).In early use also: †to fill (a place) with such sounds; †to produce (such a sound) (obsolete).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique

squeak1577

tinkle1582

divide1590

shake1611

slur1746

da capo1764

rattlea1766

to run over ——1789

skirl1818

spread?1822

develop1838

arpeggio1864

propose1864

recapitulate1873

jazz1915

lilt1916

jazzify1927

thump1929

schmaltz1936

belt1947

stroke1969

funkify1973

scratch1984

scratch-mix1985

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (transitive)] > tinkle

tink1532

ting1552

tinkle1582

tinglea1657

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 48 Moonewise Coribants on brasse their od harmonye tinckling.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 53 Thee place shee tinckled.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 209 Many drums were beaten and basons tinckled about them.

a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. i. 4 She was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinnet.

1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 1 I finished my glass of punch, tinkled the spoon against its side.

1900 H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. (1901) vii. i. 245 The ‘bell pennies’—for tolling or tinkling the ‘dead bell’ before the coffin at funerals.

1943 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter (1961) iii. 308 A breeze tinkled the glass pendants of the little Japanese pagoda on the table.

1974 Times 15 Feb. 14/7 Its cover portrays the Prime Minister, seated at the organ, tinkling one lot of ivories and flashing the other lot.

2014 M. Bishop My So-called Ruined Life ix. 64 She likes to tinkle the ice in the glass, nostalgically.

c. intransitive. Of a person: to make a series of sharp light ringing sounds, esp. by striking or playing a bell, musical instrument, or other resonant object. Frequently with on.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > tinkle > of person

tink1533

ting1600

tinkle1809

1587 W. Fulbeck Bk. Christian Ethicks sig. A8^v She heard the Coribants tinckling on their brasen Basons: shee hearde the Mœnades shouting in the aire with a clamarous bellowing.

1789 J. Trusler Habitable World Described IV. 206 Instead of the magic drum, he held a piece of wood in one hand..ornamented with a little bell, on which he tinkled very briskly.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 285 Our host..was tinkling on a cracked guitar.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. x. 112 The musicians scraped, tinkled, or blew.

1997 Times 16 June (Lindbergh's Legacy Suppl.) 9/3 One airline installed a wooden dance floor, and had a resident musician tinkling on an aluminium piano.

d. intransitive. To flow or move with a series of short light ringing sounds.Frequently with an adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner of movement.

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1755 J. G. Cooper Lett. conc. Taste i. 4 Several little Streams gushing out of Rocks, some gently tinkling over Pebbles.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xvii A small rill tinkled along close by.

1855 R. Browning Love among Ruins i Our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward through the twilight.

1950 A. Huxley Memorandum 18 Apr. in Lett. (1969) 623 Let her merely tinkle about among the coffee cups.

2012 C. Fernyhough Pieces of Light (2013) ii. 23 All those bescarved undergraduates, their bicycles tinkling over cobblestones: they are scenes from other people's memories.

e. transitive. Of a clock: to express (the time) by making a series of short light ringing sounds. Also with out.

ΚΠ

1861 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon iv, in Temple Bar Feb. 296 The multitude of clocks..were tinkling out the hour of nine.

1997 N. Riols Where Love Endures i. xiii. 117 A tiny gold clock on the mantelpiece began to tinkle the hour.

a. transitive. To make known, call attention to, or praise (a person or thing) by making a series of short light ringing sounds or other noise. Also intransitive. Frequently figurative. Somewhat rare.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > ridicule or mock by specific means [verb (transitive)] > ridicule by beating pots and pans

tinkle1562

shivaree1805

lowbell1845

rough music1847

ran-tan1866

tin-kettle1881

tin pan1882

1562 in F. Blomefield Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk (1745) II. xlii. 739 (note) A Woman for Whoredom to ryde on a Cart..& Tynkld with a Bason.

1792 W. Y. Airdrie Fair 5 There packmen billies set their stands An' tinkle owre their braw things.

1861 All Year Round 5 13 Flattery in the fluent phrase that just Tinkled the tender moral o'er the dust Of greatness.

1954 J. J. Millard Wickedest Man (2014) i. 6 The pushcart peddlers were..fanning out with laden carts toward their separate districts, their bells tinkling the news of fish and vegetables and notions.

b. transitive. To attract or summon (a person or thing) by tinkling.In quot. 1639: to encourage (swarming bees) to settle by repeatedly striking resonant objects together to make a series of ringing sounds. Cf. ting v. 2a.

ΚΠ

1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 111 Bees are best tinckled together when they rise.

1832 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lx, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 264 The very kirk..whose small bell tinkled the joyous school-boy to worship.

1937 E. Farjeon Humming Bird 16 An æolian harp tinkled me into the Chinese Paradise.

2010 S. P. O'Mordha For Glory Truth & Treasure ix. 80 As all the niceties concluded a small bell tinkled us to dinner.

4. transitive. To reach (the ears of a person); to give pleasure or amusement to (a person). Cf. tickle v.¹ 3. rare.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)]

i-quemec893

ywortheOE

queemeOE

likeOE

paya1200

gamec1225

lustc1230

apaya1250

savoura1300

feastc1300

comfort1303

glew1303

pleasec1350

ticklec1386

feedc1400

agreea1413

agreec1425

emplessc1450

gree1468

applease1470

complaire1477

enjoy1485

warm1526

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relish1567

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sweeta1575

promerit1582

tinkle1582

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arride1600

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agrade1611

oblectate1611

oblige1652

placentiate1694

flatter1695

to shine up to1882

fancy-

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 11 Of Troy seat yf haplye the rumoure Youre ears hath tinckled.

1883 W. M. Adamson in Worthies Evangelical Union 316 The flimsy sensational preacher, whose desire is to tinkle the ear, more than touch the conscience.

2010 Kalgoorlie (W. Austral.) Miner (Nexis) 6 Oct. 40 He is understandably tinkled pink after surviving a year-long selection process to make the final cut.

5. figurative.

†a. intransitive. Of speech or verse: to rhyme, to jingle. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [verb (intransitive)] > jingle

tinkle1625

tink1655

chimea1667

jingle1670

clinka1745

sing-song1828

1625 [implied in: B. Jonson Fortunate Isles 291 In rime! fine tinckling rime! and flowand verse! (at tinkling adj.¹ 2)].

1684 J. Dryden in Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse sig. A1 A kind of hobbling Prose: That limp'd along, and tinckl'd in the close.

1717 E. Fenton Poems 82 My genius sinks, and hardly knows To make a couplet tinkle in the close.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 193 Keep to your sounding generalities, your tinkling phrases.

1920 Judge 2 Oct. 12/2 Poetry that is not mere words that rhyme and tinkle is rare.

b. intransitive. Of a person: to utter empty sounds or senseless words; to talk idly. Now somewhat rare.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)]

chattera1250

drivelc1390

clatter1401

chatc1440

smattera1450

pratec1460

blaver1461

babble?1504

blether1524

boblec1530

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

fable1579

tinkle1638

whiffle1706

slaver1730

doitera1790

jaunder1808

haver1816

maunder1816

blather1825

yatter1825

blat1846

bibble-babble1888

flap-doodle1893

twiddle1893

spiel1894

rot1896

blither1903

to run off at the mouth1908

drool1923

twiddle-twaddle1925

crap1940

natter1942

yack1950

yacker1961

yacket1969

1638 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 135 There was three or four commissions of the North tinkled upon.

1646 R. Baillie Let. 16 May (1841) II. 370 If that man now goe to tinckle on Bishops and delinquents, and such foolish toyes, it seems he is mad.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 257 The tide of speech..No longer labours merely to produce The pomp of sound, or tinkle without use.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (1875) I. i. 24 Beware, a tinkling fool to be!

1984 K. Amis Stanley & Women ii. 86 ‘You and I,’ he tinkled on, ‘will be making some arrangements beforehand.’

6. intransitive. colloquial. To urinate. Cf. tinkle n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)]

migheeOE

pissc1300

to make water?a1475

stale1530

leak1598

urinate1599

minge1606

urine1607

water1631

stroana1730

to pass water1738

to pump ship1759

piddle1784

to make one's burn1788

pittle1801

pee1825

micturate1842

tiddlea1852

leck1922

wet1925

whizz1929

wee-wee1930

wee1934

widdle1934

to go (make) wee-wee1937

tinkle1943

void1947

to take a leak1969

potty1972

slash1973

wazz1984

1943 G. W. Crane in R. B. Winn Encycl. Child Guidance 398 Suppose we used the word ‘tinkle’ as a synonym for our medical verb ‘urinate’, and ‘grunt’ for the verb ‘defecate’.

1976 ‘E. McBain’ Guns (1977) vii. 198 I'm looking for the loo... I really have to tinkle.

2004 Independent 4 Mar. (Review section) 4/5 Michael Jackson (who used to whisper in Walter's ear at awards ceremonies: ‘I have to tinkle. Can you take me to the potty?’).

Derivatives

ˈtinkled adj.

ΚΠ

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 160 The tinkled latch startled her dumb.

2002 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 5 Oct. (Saturday Home ed.) 2 c The first section features a woodblock tapping out an irregular rhythm accompanied by tinkled notes from the top end of the piano.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tinkle
释义	tinklen.int. Brit. /ˈtɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˈtɪŋk(ə)l/ Forms: 1600s tincle, 1600s– tinkle. Also reduplicated. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: tinkle v.¹ Etymology: < tinkle v.¹ Compare earlier tinkling n.¹ and tinkle-tankle n., and also earlier tink int. and tink n.¹ Compare further tingle int. and n.² and tingle-tangle n.¹ A. n. 1. The action or an instance of tinkling; a sharp light ringing sound, such as that made by a small bell, by pieces of metal, glass, etc., struck together, or by the strings of a musical instrument being plucked. a. Considered as a single or continuous sound of this kind. ΚΠ 1668 T. Jones Brit. Lang. in its Lustre Tingc, a tinkle or blow on a Bell, Pot or Kettle. 1742 tr. C. de Fieux de Mouhy Busy-body II. iv. ii. 158 One Tinkle of a Bell [Fr. un coup de cloche] brings them together. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed ix, in Tales Crusaders I. 156 The shrill tinkle of a harp. 1937 V. Woolf Years (1968) 43 There was a sudden roar of laughter; then the tinkle of a piano. 2010 A. Joseph Saraswati Park xiii. 160 There was a small kerfuffle, then a crash and tinkle: the chai boy had dropped a glass. b. Reduplicated, sometimes with other imitative terms, expressing repetition of such sounds. ΚΠ 1793 R. Burns Let. Sept. (1985) II. 237 My hobby-horse..gets so enamoured with the tinkle-gingle, tinkle-gingle of it own bells, that it is sure to run..the bedlam Jockey, quite beyond any useful point. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 260 There comes the tinkle-tinkle of a bell. 1984 R. Dahl Boy 83 All around the dormitory..was heard the tinkle-tinkle of little boys peeing into their pots. 2. figurative. With reference to speech or verse. Cf. tinkle v.¹ 5a, 5b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > tinkle or ting twinkling13.. tinglinga1398 tinklinga1398 ting1611 tinkle-tanklinga1625 tinkle-tankle1642 tinniment1656 tinkle1722 tingle1754 sprinkle1843 ting-a-ling?1850 tankling1864 plinkety1891 ting-a-ring1931 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > jingling of rhyme jargon1570 jingle1661 chimea1674 ting-tang1686 ding-dong1709 clinka1716 tinkle1776 tintinnabulum1782 tink1890 1722 A. N. Circular Let. Christian Friendship to Lady Mayoress 10 What a Noise and Tinkle did Daniel Williams and his Baxtarian Party..make about Sincerity; and seem'd more fervent and zealous for Sincerity..than was due or fit. 1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. cxli (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. 1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music ii. 114 The tinkle of the words is all that strikes the ears. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Mar. 230/2 After Sir Thomas Browne's harmonies on mutability what a tinkle of words is this over ‘the congregated bones of the great men of past times’. 3. British colloquial. A telephone call. Usually in to give (a person) a tinkle. Cf. ring n.² 4.Originally with reference to the electric bell used with a landline telephone to signal an incoming call. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > communicate with by telephone [verb (transitive)] telephone1877 call1879 ring1880 to call up1882 phone1889 to give a ring1895 buzz1914 to give (a person) a tinkle1921 to dial up1924 society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > call or message call1878 telephone call1878 telelogue1880 telepheme1882 ring1895 phone call1911 buzz1913 phone message1913 tinkle1921 phone1922 telephone1935 1921 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 21 Feb. 5/7 (advt.) Just give us a tinkle and we will bring to your door your order or samples to choose from. 1949 S. Gibbons Matchmaker 51 And then not another word for three weeks! Not even a tinkle to ask if my cold was better! 2006 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 16 Apr. The actor recently declared that he would be giving them a tinkle to set up play dates for his and their new babies. 4. colloquial. An act of urination. Cf. tinkle v.¹ 6. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination pissinga1398 urine1561 urination1599 staling1601 miction1663 urining1668 piss?1837 piddle1870 micturating1879 pee1880 pee-wee1909 wet1925 peeing1929 leak1934 Jimmy Riddle1937 wee-wee1937 tinkle1939 run-off1944 slash1950 No. 11965 wee1968 widdle1969 gypsy's kiss1971 Jimmy1971 whizz1971 gypsy's1972 void1980 wazz1994 1939 J. C. Foster & M. L. Mattson Nursery-school Educ. 122 At an early age, such words as leaky, tinkle, rainy, and little job for urination. 1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) ii. xiv. 239 And went over and had a tinkle. 2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 11 May (Review section) 4/3 I found myself in a talking toilet the other night...There I am, taking a tinkle, and a voice from behind the mirror begins to wax about some new brand of men's deodorant. B. int. A representation of a sharp light ringing sound, such as that made by a small bell, by pieces of metal, glass, etc., struck together, or by the strings of a musical instrument being plucked. Usually reduplicated. ΚΠ ?1673 Addit. Sheet Musical Compan. 1 Tinkle, tinkle, ting, goes the small Bell at Nine, to call the Beerers home. 1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend iv. 44 Pe. When they wou'd speak with one another, what's the Call? Ja. Tinkle Tinkle. D. Pe. A Bell? Ja. It is. 1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. 37 You drop off again, and get about an eyeful of sleep: lo, it is tinkle, tinkle, for matins. 2015 Japan News (Nexis) 16 July 11 Tinkle, tinkle. Tinkle, tinkle—the refreshing sounds of Japanese wind chimes known as furin bring an air of coolness to the sweltering summer heat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tinklev.¹ Brit. /ˈtɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˈtɪŋk(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English tencle, Middle English tenelis (imperative plural, transmission error), Middle English tyncle, Middle English tynkyll, 1500s tinckel, 1500s tynckle, 1500s tynkell, 1500s tynkld (past tense), 1500s–1600s tincle, 1500s–1700s tinckle, 1500s– tinkle; N.E.D (1912) also records a form Middle English tynkle. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or perhaps (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: an element of imitative origin, -le suffix 3; tingle v. Etymology: Either (i) < an element of imitative origin (compare later tink int.) + -le suffix 3, or perhaps (ii) a variant or alteration of tingle v. (see note). With sense 2 compare earlier tinkling adj.¹ and tinkling n.¹ 2 and later tink v.² Compare tinking adj., tinking n.¹, and also tingling n., tingling adj.Compare classical Latin tinnīre (of metallic objects) to ring, (of the ears) to be affected by a ringing sensation (see tinnitus n.), which is translated (in both its senses) in some of the earliest attestations of tinkle v.¹, tinkling n.¹, and tinkling adj.¹ Perhaps compare also Old English tinclian to tickle (see tickle v.¹, which compare also for the semantic development). Relationship with similar words. In Middle English, words of this group used with reference to a physical sensation (see sense 1) sometimes vary with forms of tingle v. in different manuscripts of the same or closely related texts. Similarly, Middle English uses with reference to the sound (especially of a bell) sometimes vary with forms without the -l- (compare tinking n.¹ and tinking adj.), or with forms with -g- (compare the variation shown in quot. c1450 at tinkling adj.¹ 1). This is especially the case in different versions of the Wycliffite Bible and texts related to this. Specific senses. With sense 4 compare earlier tickle v.¹ 3. With sense 6 compare slightly earlier tinkle n. 4. 1. intransitive. Of the ears: to be affected by a ringing sensation (cf. tingle v. 2). Of the nose or other part of the body: to be affected by a tingling sensation (cf. tingle v. 1, tickle v.¹ 2). Now rare (only regional). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > tingle > of the ears tinklea1382 tinglea1425 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > prick or tingle > suffer pricking or tingling tinklea1382 tinglea1425 sowc1425 dindle1483 pricklea1661 prinkle1721 prick1850 pringle1889 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > ear > [verb (intransitive)] > of ears tinklea1382 tinglea1425 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xix. 3 Eche that shal heren it, tyncle hys eres [a1425 L.V. hise eeris tyngle; L. tinniant]. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 589 Who so heareth of it his eares shall tinckle. c1600 J. Conybeare Lett. & Exerc. (1905) 40 Nasturtium called cresses being eaten doth make the nose tinckle. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Theodore & Honoria in Fables 260 His Ears tinckled, and his Colour fled. 1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iii. 21 I have a Secret to impart..will set baith your Lugs a tinkling. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems li. 11 With inward Sound the full ears tinkle. 1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. S. Pembrokeshire 50/1 Tinkle, to tingle. 2. a. intransitive. Of a bell, musical instrument, or other resonant object: to make a series of sharp light ringing sounds on being struck. Cf. tinkle n. and int. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > tinkle twinkle13.. chimea1340 tingc1400 dindlec1440 tinklea1500 tink1528 tingle1582 tanglea1652 trinkle1827 tankle1894 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)] > tinkle tinklea1500 a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) l. 1385 Now tynkyll [c1450 Ashm. tenelis, perhaps read tenclis] vp taburnes þat all þe towne ringes. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 69 Wee could not sleepe for little bels tinckling all night. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 256 [The javelin] faintly tinckl'd on the Brazen Shield. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (new ed.) I. Ded. iii The spinnet tinkling with her voice. 1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 50 A sheepbell tinkles on the heath. 1831 E. A. Poe Bells i How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! 1873 T. W. Higginson Oldport Days ix. 216 The dry snow tinkled beneath my feet. 1971 W. Golding Scorpion God (1973) 23 She dropped her arms and the bracelets tinkled as they fell to her wrists. 2006 Countryman Dec. 25/1 Splinters of glass tinkled as they fell on already-broken glass on the lino, slates shuttered off the roof and smashed as they hit the stone flags. b. transitive. Chiefly of a person: to cause (something) to make a series of short light ringing sounds, esp. by striking or playing a bell, musical instrument, or other resonant object. Also spec. to play (a keyboard instrument, or its keys) lightly so as to produce such sounds (cf. tickle v.¹ 6a).In early use also: †to fill (a place) with such sounds; †to produce (such a sound) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique squeak1577 tinkle1582 divide1590 shake1611 slur1746 da capo1764 rattlea1766 to run over ——1789 skirl1818 spread?1822 develop1838 arpeggio1864 propose1864 recapitulate1873 jazz1915 lilt1916 jazzify1927 thump1929 schmaltz1936 belt1947 stroke1969 funkify1973 scratch1984 scratch-mix1985 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (transitive)] > tinkle tink1532 ting1552 tinkle1582 tinglea1657 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 48 Moonewise Coribants on brasse their od harmonye tinckling. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 53 Thee place shee tinckled. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 209 Many drums were beaten and basons tinckled about them. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. i. 4 She was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinnet. View more context for this quotation 1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 1 I finished my glass of punch, tinkled the spoon against its side. 1900 H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. (1901) vii. i. 245 The ‘bell pennies’—for tolling or tinkling the ‘dead bell’ before the coffin at funerals. 1943 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter (1961) iii. 308 A breeze tinkled the glass pendants of the little Japanese pagoda on the table. 1974 Times 15 Feb. 14/7 Its cover portrays the Prime Minister, seated at the organ, tinkling one lot of ivories and flashing the other lot. 2014 M. Bishop My So-called Ruined Life ix. 64 She likes to tinkle the ice in the glass, nostalgically. c. intransitive. Of a person: to make a series of sharp light ringing sounds, esp. by striking or playing a bell, musical instrument, or other resonant object. Frequently with on. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > tinkle > of person tink1533 ting1600 tinkle1809 1587 W. Fulbeck Bk. Christian Ethicks sig. A8^v She heard the Coribants tinckling on their brasen Basons: shee hearde the Mœnades shouting in the aire with a clamarous bellowing. 1789 J. Trusler Habitable World Described IV. 206 Instead of the magic drum, he held a piece of wood in one hand..ornamented with a little bell, on which he tinkled very briskly. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 285 Our host..was tinkling on a cracked guitar. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. x. 112 The musicians scraped, tinkled, or blew. 1997 Times 16 June (Lindbergh's Legacy Suppl.) 9/3 One airline installed a wooden dance floor, and had a resident musician tinkling on an aluminium piano. d. intransitive. To flow or move with a series of short light ringing sounds.Frequently with an adverb or adverbial phrase indicating the manner of movement. ΚΠ 1755 J. G. Cooper Lett. conc. Taste i. 4 Several little Streams gushing out of Rocks, some gently tinkling over Pebbles. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xvii A small rill tinkled along close by. 1855 R. Browning Love among Ruins i Our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle homeward through the twilight. 1950 A. Huxley Memorandum 18 Apr. in Lett. (1969) 623 Let her merely tinkle about among the coffee cups. 2012 C. Fernyhough Pieces of Light (2013) ii. 23 All those bescarved undergraduates, their bicycles tinkling over cobblestones: they are scenes from other people's memories. e. transitive. Of a clock: to express (the time) by making a series of short light ringing sounds. Also with out. ΚΠ 1861 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon iv, in Temple Bar Feb. 296 The multitude of clocks..were tinkling out the hour of nine. 1997 N. Riols Where Love Endures i. xiii. 117 A tiny gold clock on the mantelpiece began to tinkle the hour. 3. a. transitive. To make known, call attention to, or praise (a person or thing) by making a series of short light ringing sounds or other noise. Also intransitive. Frequently figurative. Somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > ridicule or mock by specific means [verb (transitive)] > ridicule by beating pots and pans tinkle1562 shivaree1805 lowbell1845 rough music1847 ran-tan1866 tin-kettle1881 tin pan1882 1562 in F. Blomefield Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk (1745) II. xlii. 739 (note) A Woman for Whoredom to ryde on a Cart..& Tynkld with a Bason. 1792 W. Y. Airdrie Fair 5 There packmen billies set their stands An' tinkle owre their braw things. 1861 All Year Round 5 13 Flattery in the fluent phrase that just Tinkled the tender moral o'er the dust Of greatness. 1954 J. J. Millard Wickedest Man (2014) i. 6 The pushcart peddlers were..fanning out with laden carts toward their separate districts, their bells tinkling the news of fish and vegetables and notions. b. transitive. To attract or summon (a person or thing) by tinkling.In quot. 1639: to encourage (swarming bees) to settle by repeatedly striking resonant objects together to make a series of ringing sounds. Cf. ting v. 2a. ΚΠ 1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 111 Bees are best tinckled together when they rise. 1832 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lx, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 264 The very kirk..whose small bell tinkled the joyous school-boy to worship. 1937 E. Farjeon Humming Bird 16 An æolian harp tinkled me into the Chinese Paradise. 2010 S. P. O'Mordha For Glory Truth & Treasure ix. 80 As all the niceties concluded a small bell tinkled us to dinner. 4. transitive. To reach (the ears of a person); to give pleasure or amusement to (a person). Cf. tickle v.¹ 3. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)] i-quemec893 ywortheOE queemeOE likeOE likeOE paya1200 gamec1225 lustc1230 apaya1250 savoura1300 feastc1300 comfort1303 glew1303 pleasec1350 ticklec1386 feedc1400 agreea1413 agreec1425 emplessc1450 gree1468 applease1470 complaire1477 enjoy1485 warm1526 to claw the ears1549 content1552 pleasure1556 oblect?1567 relish1567 gratify1569 sweeta1575 promerit1582 tinkle1582 tastea1586 aggrate1590 gratulatea1592 greeta1592 grace1595 arride1600 complease1604 honey1604 agrade1611 oblectate1611 oblige1652 placentiate1694 flatter1695 to shine up to1882 fancy- 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 11 Of Troy seat yf haplye the rumoure Youre ears hath tinckled. 1883 W. M. Adamson in Worthies Evangelical Union 316 The flimsy sensational preacher, whose desire is to tinkle the ear, more than touch the conscience. 2010 Kalgoorlie (W. Austral.) Miner (Nexis) 6 Oct. 40 He is understandably tinkled pink after surviving a year-long selection process to make the final cut. 5. figurative. †a. intransitive. Of speech or verse: to rhyme, to jingle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [verb (intransitive)] > jingle tinkle1625 tink1655 chimea1667 jingle1670 clinka1745 sing-song1828 1625 [implied in: B. Jonson Fortunate Isles 291 In rime! fine tinckling rime! and flowand verse! (at tinkling adj.¹ 2)]. 1684 J. Dryden in Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse sig. A1 A kind of hobbling Prose: That limp'd along, and tinckl'd in the close. 1717 E. Fenton Poems 82 My genius sinks, and hardly knows To make a couplet tinkle in the close. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. viii. 193 Keep to your sounding generalities, your tinkling phrases. 1920 Judge 2 Oct. 12/2 Poetry that is not mere words that rhyme and tinkle is rare. b. intransitive. Of a person: to utter empty sounds or senseless words; to talk idly. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 1638 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 135 There was three or four commissions of the North tinkled upon. 1646 R. Baillie Let. 16 May (1841) II. 370 If that man now goe to tinckle on Bishops and delinquents, and such foolish toyes, it seems he is mad. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 257 The tide of speech..No longer labours merely to produce The pomp of sound, or tinkle without use. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (1875) I. i. 24 Beware, a tinkling fool to be! 1984 K. Amis Stanley & Women ii. 86 ‘You and I,’ he tinkled on, ‘will be making some arrangements beforehand.’ 6. intransitive. colloquial. To urinate. Cf. tinkle n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)] migheeOE pissc1300 to make water?a1475 stale1530 leak1598 urinate1599 minge1606 urine1607 water1631 stroana1730 to pass water1738 to pump ship1759 piddle1784 to make one's burn1788 pittle1801 pee1825 micturate1842 tiddlea1852 leck1922 wet1925 whizz1929 wee-wee1930 wee1934 widdle1934 to go (make) wee-wee1937 tinkle1943 void1947 to take a leak1969 potty1972 slash1973 wazz1984 1943 G. W. Crane in R. B. Winn Encycl. Child Guidance 398 Suppose we used the word ‘tinkle’ as a synonym for our medical verb ‘urinate’, and ‘grunt’ for the verb ‘defecate’. 1976 ‘E. McBain’ Guns (1977) vii. 198 I'm looking for the loo... I really have to tinkle. 2004 Independent 4 Mar. (Review section) 4/5 Michael Jackson (who used to whisper in Walter's ear at awards ceremonies: ‘I have to tinkle. Can you take me to the potty?’). Derivatives ˈtinkled adj. ΚΠ 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 160 The tinkled latch startled her dumb. 2002 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 5 Oct. (Saturday Home ed.) 2 c The first section features a woodblock tapping out an irregular rhythm accompanied by tinkled notes from the top end of the piano. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tinklev.² Brit. /ˈtɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˈtɪŋk(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: tinkler n.¹ Etymology: Back-formation < tinkler n.¹ Compare earlier tink v.¹ Now rare. intransitive. To work as a tinker; to mend or repair items (cf. tinker v. 2a). Also occasionally transitive: to work on (something) in a casual or exploratory way (cf. tinker v. 1b). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [verb (intransitive)] > mend pots, kettles, etc. tinkle1598 1598 [implied in: J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. ix. sig. G8^v I once did know a tinckling Pewterer. (at tinkling adj.²)]. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 120 Who then's the Rogue, In vnderstanding..? who erres? Who tinkleth then? or personates Thom. Tinker? 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 141/2 Ah wer hauf t' dāă tinklin on afore Ah gat it reet. 2011 Leonardo 44 210/1 The human live coders who flirt within the algorithmic environments, teasing and tinkling the guts of the processes, are the most powerful agents around. 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