Tinkled vs Tinkler - What's the difference?
tinkled | tinkler |
(tinkle)
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.
(slang) penis
* 1983 , John Wheatcroft, Catherine, Her Book (page 44)
* 2006 , Andrea D'Allasandra, House of the Screaming Clowns (page 42)
As a verb tinkled
is (tinkle).As a noun tinkler is
(slang) penis or tinkler can be (uk|dialect) a tinker.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.
tinkler
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- As his drawers came free, his tinkler leapt straight up. How different he was between the legs from Hindley, who had that darkness!
- Johnny felt a delicious surge of energy in his tinkler .