tinkling

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English

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Noun

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tinkling (plural tinklings)

  1. 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.
  2. (Jamaica) The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
  3. The action of the verb to tinkle

Adjective

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tinkling (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) That works as a tinker

Verb

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tinkling

  1. present participle and gerund of tinkle