chinkle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A turn or kink in a rope.
  2. A ringing sound of low volume. rare
    — Adare rang the bell. So still was the night that now the sighing in the room had stopped and the birds had settled down again in their tree, he could hear the chinkle of the bell, tossing on its wire in the kitchen fifty yards away, downstairs.
动词 v.
  1. To chink or jingle. intransitive,rare
  2. To tinkle or cause to tinkle; to produce a continued chinking sound with. transitive
    — He chinkled the coins in his pocket.

词形变化

chinkles plural chinkles present,singular,third-person chinkling participle,present chinkled participle,past chinkled past chinkles plural

词源

词源 1
Variation of kinkle.
词源 2
From chink + -le.
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