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FromMiddle Englishtinclen, equivalent totink +‎-le(frequentative suffix).

tinkle (third-person singular simple presenttinkles,present participletinkling,simple past and past participletinkled)

(intransitive) To make lightmetallic sounds, rather like a very smallbell.
The glassestinkled together as they were placed on the table.
- 1753,Robert Dodsley,Agriculture:
  The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of histinkling bells.
- 1906,Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany],Time and the Gods‎^[1], London: William Heineman,→OCLC,page 1:
  With a sound liketinkling bells, far off in a land of shepherds hidden by some hill, the waters of many fountains turned again home.
(transitive) To cause to tinkle.
(transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
The butlertinkled dinner.
To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
- 1700,[John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, fromBoccace”, inFables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
  And his earstinkled, and the colour fled.
(intransitive, informal) Tourinate.

to make light metallic sounds

to cause to tinkle

to indicate by tinkling

to hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound

to urinate—seeurinate

tinkle (countable anduncountable,pluraltinkles)

A lightmetallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells orwind chimes.
- 1889,Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, inUnder the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published1899, page56:
  The Man's Wife heard thetinkle-tinkle of little stones and loose earth falling off the roadway, and the sliding roar of the man and horse going down.
- 1966, James Workman,The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page97:
  She laughed, her voice atinkle in the silence of the circular chamber.
- 1994,Stephen Fry, chapter 2, inThe Hippopotamus:
  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 gentletinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
(UK, informal) Atelephone call.
Synonyms:call,ring
Give me atinkle when you arrive.
(informal, euphemistic) An act ofurination.
(informal, euphemistic)Urine.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)