tinkle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈtɪŋkəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes. countable,uncountable
    — The Man's Wife heard the tinkle-tinkle of little stones and loose earth falling off the roadway, and the sliding roar of the man and horse going down.
  2. A telephone call. UK,countable,informal,uncountable
    — Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
  3. An act of urination. countable,euphemistic,informal,uncountable
  4. Urine. countable,euphemistic,informal,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell. intransitive
    — The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
  2. To cause to tinkle. transitive
  3. To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling. transitive
    — The butler tinkled dinner.
  4. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
    — And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.
  5. To urinate. informal,intransitive

词形变化

tinkles present,singular,third-person tinkling participle,present tinkled participle,past tinkled past tinkles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
atinkle tinkle-down tinkler tinklesome tinkle the ivories tinkly have a tinkle take a tinkle
相关词
ting tingle tink

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with West Frisian tinkelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tinkelen (“to tinkle”), German Low German tinkeln (“to flicker, glitter, sparkle”).
词源 2
From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with West Frisian tinkelje (“to tinkle”), Dutch tinkelen (“to tinkle”), German Low German tinkeln (“to flicker, glitter, sparkle”).
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