Tinkled vs Winkled - What's the difference?
tinkled | winkled |
(tinkle)
To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
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(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.
(winkle)
A periwinkle or its shell, of family .
Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species .
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(children's slang) The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.
to extract
As verbs the difference between tinkled and winkled
is that tinkled is past tense of tinkle while winkled is past tense of winkle.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.