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tinkling en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That tinkles.
    • A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you. 1936, Eric Maschwitz, “These Foolish Things”:
    • American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, you are like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Paul's Letter to American Christians”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 163:
  2. (not-comparable, obsolete) That works as a tinker

Deriveds

tinklingly

Translations (2)

eo tintetanta (that tinkles) · eo tintanta (that tinkles)

tinkling en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A tinkle; a tinkling sound.
    • The merry piano tinklings were gone. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 591:
  2. (Jamaica) The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
  3. The action of the verb to tinkle

Forms

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Translations (2)

eo tintado (a tinkling sound) · fr tintement (a tinkling sound)

tinkling en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of tinkle
    form of tinkle