Ting vs Tinkle - What's the difference?
ting | tinkle |
ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.
(Webster 1913)
English onomatopoeias
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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 a verb tinkle is
to make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.As a noun tinkle is
a light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.ting
English
Etymology 1
onomatopoeiaSee also
* ding * ding dong * tintinnabulationEtymology 2
Chinese: ?, pinyin: d?ng. (en)Alternative forms
* dingNoun
(en noun)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.