Tinkle vs Inkle - What's the difference?
tinkle | inkle |
To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
* Dodsley
(intransitive, informal, juvenile) To urinate.
To cause to tinkle.
To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
* Dryden
A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) , ch. 2:
(UK, informal) A telephone call.
(informal, euphemism) An act of urination.
(rare) To hint at; disclose.
(rare) To have a hint or inkling of; divine.
Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces
As verbs the difference between tinkle and inkle
is that tinkle is to make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell while inkle is (rare) to hint at; disclose.As nouns the difference between tinkle and inkle
is that tinkle is a light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes while inkle is narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces.tinkle
English
Verb
(tinkl)- The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
- The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
- The butler tinkled dinner.
- And his ears tinkled , and the colour fled.
Noun
(en noun)- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. . . . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from *.Verb
(inkl)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Apparently from earlier *(term), perhaps from an incorrect division of lingle, lingel.Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(-)- (Shakespeare)