Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mend as a tinker.
- noun A tinking or tinkling sound.
- To produce or emit a fine, sharp, jingling sound, as of a small metallic body striking upon a larger one; make a tinkling noise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.
- intransitive verb To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle.
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- verb knitting, slang, transitive To
unknit . - verb To emit a high-pitched noise.
- noun dated A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.
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- verb make or emit a high sound
Etymologies
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Examples
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The tip landed in the middle of his bony chest and skated over each rib, going * tink, tink, tink* through the handle, like
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow
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In Singaporean English (known as Singlish), think is pronounced "tink," and theories is "tee-oh-rees."
How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand By Michael Erard 2008
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Lovers stroll by on dirt paths; metal petanque balls "tink" against each other nearby.
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At one school, for example, state auditors complained that teachers pronounced "words such as violet as 'biolet,' think as 'tink' and swallow the ending sounds of words, as they sometimes do in Spanish."
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At one school, for example, state auditors complained that teachers pronounced "words such as violet as 'biolet,' think as 'tink' and swallow the ending sounds of words, as they sometimes do in Spanish."
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Reports from state auditors say some teachers pronounce words such as think as "tink" and violet as "biolet" and leave off the ending sounds of words, saying "doin" instead of "doing."
azcentral.com | news 2010
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Listen for the "tink" of hitting the rail telling me I'm getting close.
Snowflakes in Hell 2009
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The pedal now clunked againsed the chain guard, and made a nice rythmic "tink" with each revolution.
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They found the noise generated by the titanium clubs hitting a golf ball is far louder than the "tink" of the steel club making a shot.
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While the steel clubs produced the agreeable 'tink' of a well-hit shot, the titanium ones were much louder, described by some as similar to a gun being fired.
GeoffShackelford.com 2009
marky commented on the word tink
Jamaican slang for 'think'.
November 6, 2010
maux commented on the word tink
Also a knitting term meaning to undo a knitting project one stitch at a time, as opposed to "frogging" which undoes many stitches at a time. Origin: "knit" spelled backwards.
December 2, 2010