Inkled vs Tinkled - What's the difference?
inkled | tinkled |
(inkle)
(rare) To hint at; disclose.
(rare) To have a hint or inkling of; divine.
Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces
(tinkle)
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.
As verbs the difference between inkled and tinkled
is that inkled is past tense of inkle while tinkled is past tense of tinkle.inkled
English
Verb
(head)inkle
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)
tinkled
English
Verb
(head)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.