tinkling
English edit
Noun edit
tinkling (plural tinklings)
- A tinkle; a tinkling sound.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 591:
- The merry piano tinklings were gone.
- (Jamaica) The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
- The action of the verb to tinkle
Adjective edit
tinkling (not comparable)
- That tinkles.
- "A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you.
- 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Paul's Letter to American Christians”, in Strength to Love[1], New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 163:
- American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, you are like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
- (obsolete) That works as a tinker
Verb edit
tinkling
- present participle and gerund of tinkle