Tinkle vs Kinkle - What's the difference?
tinkle | kinkle |
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between tinkle and kinkle
is that tinkle is to indicate, signal, etc by tinkling while kinkle is to kink.As verbs the difference between tinkle and kinkle
is that tinkle is to make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell while kinkle is to kink.As nouns the difference between tinkle and kinkle
is that tinkle is a light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes while kinkle is a kink or twist.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.
