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Tinkle vs Atinkle - What's the difference?

tinkle | atinkle |

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.

As an adjective atinkle is

making a tinkling sound.

tinkle

English

Verb

(tinkl)
  • To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
  • The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
  • * Dodsley
  • The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
  • (intransitive, informal, juvenile) To urinate.
  • To cause to tinkle.
  • To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
  • The butler tinkled dinner.
  • To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  • * Dryden
  • And his ears tinkled , and the colour fled.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) , ch. 2:
  • 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.
  • (UK, informal) A telephone call.
  • Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
  • (informal, euphemism) An act of urination.
  • atinkle

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Making a tinkling sound.