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Tinkle vs Thud - What's the difference?

tinkle | thud |

As verbs the difference between tinkle and thud

is that tinkle is to make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell while thud is to make the sound of a dull impact.

As nouns the difference between tinkle and thud

is that tinkle is a light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes while thud is the sound of a dull impact.

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.
  • thud

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a dull impact.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 3
  • These were but the thoughts of a second, but the voices were nearer, and I heard a dull thud far up the passage, and knew that a man had jumped down from the churchyard into the hole.
  • Republic jet ground attack fighter.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make the sound of a dull impact.
  • Synonyms

    * flump, plunk

    Coordinate terms

    * clang, clash, crash English onomatopoeias ----