atinkle
Making a tinkling soundMaking a tinkling sound.
/əˈtɪŋkəl/
Meaning
1 senses(not comparable)Making a tinkling sound.
1894, Kenneth Grahame, “The Fairy Wicket” in Pagan Papers, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, p. 91, […] every copse and hedge-row seems a-tinkle with faint elfish laughter.
Origin
From a- + tinkle.From a- + tinkle.
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