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atinkle en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /əˈtɪŋkəl/

Etymology

From a- + tinkle.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Making a tinkling sound.
   • 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, 1912, Sarojini Naidu, “A Rajput Love Song”, in The Bird of Time,, London: Heinemann, page 29:
   • Somewhere inside a full-mouthed bell tolled; its reverberations set the chandelier a-tinkle […] 1995, Angela Carter, “The Snow Pavilion”, in Burning Your Boats, New York: Henry Holt, published 1996, page 432:
   • Impossibles march gaily for Gay Pride, ashaming any spectator a marcher would yearn to be matey with, mincing atinkle with bangles and lavender marcel 1984, Peter Davison, “Impossible People”, in Praying Wrong, New York: Atheneum, pages 8–9:
   • The mountain vale, arousing Ocean, sings, And all the air’s a-tinkle as with strings; 1876, Venier Voldo, A Song of America, New York: Hanscom, Canto 2, page 33:

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