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Trickle vs Trinkle - What's the difference?

trickle | trinkle |

As verbs the difference between trickle and trinkle

is that trickle is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously while trinkle is to trickle.

As a noun trickle

is a very thin river.

trickle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A very thin river.
    • The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
    • The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

    Verb

    (trickl)
  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
    • The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
    • Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
    The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
  • To move or roll slowly.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.}}

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    trinkle

    English

    Verb

    (trinkl)
  • (rare) to trickle
  • (obsolete) To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper.
    • (Wright)

    References

    (the tears trinkled down her cheeks), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0AVzqSAUoLUC&pg=PA101&dq=%22trinkled%22&hl=en&ei=KbwpTOG7HoKglAejgp3DAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBg] (the tears trinkled down Trim's cheeks], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8mUl8oDXyroC&pg=PA56&dq=%22trinkling%22&hl=en&ei=arwpTIXLFYSclgfdgOWsAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBg
  • v=onepage&q=%22trinkling%22&f=false (my own heart's blood came trinkling down)