tinkling
adj1
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.1936, Eric Maschwitz, “These Foolish Things”:
- 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.1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Paul's Letter to American Christians”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 163:
2
Obsolete That works as a tinker
- Derived terms
- tinklingly