tinkle
verb
[ ˈtɪŋk(ə)l ]
• make or cause to make a light, clear ringing sound.
• "cool water tinkled in the stone fountains"
Similar:
ring,
jingle,
jangle,
chime,
peal,
ding,
ping,
clink,
chink,
tintinnabulate,
splash,
purl,
babble,
burble,
plash,
• urinate.
• "I needed to tinkle"
tinkle
noun
• a light, clear ringing sound.
• "the distant tinkle of a cow bell"
Similar:
ring,
chime,
peal,
ding,
ping,
clink,
chink,
jingle,
jangle,
tintinnabulation,
splash,
purl,
babble,
burble,
plash,
• an act of urinating.
• "you have to pay to go in for a tinkle"
Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘tingle’): frequentative of obsolete tink ‘to chink or clink’, of imitative origin.
