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Definition of Tinkly
1. Adjective. Like the short high ringing sound of a small bell. "Sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"
Definition of Tinkly
1. Adjective. With a tinkling sound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinkly
1. producing a tinkling sound [adj -KLIER, -KLIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinkly
Literary usage of Tinkly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (1920)
"It is pretty long to copy, and I don't know all it means, but it sounds tinkly,
like music. This is it: Little Kitty one day, In her wheedling way, ..."
2. The Bookman (1914)
"No ! you won't 'eed nothin' else But them spicy garlic smells, An' the sunshine
an' the palm-trees an' the tinkly temple-bells; On the road to Mandalay, ..."
3. Kipling's India by Arley Isabel Munson (1915)
"Burma girl, gazing dreamily out over the river, and listening to the "tinkly
temple bells." If you've 'card the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught ..."
4. The Art of Versification by Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor (Roberts) Roberts (1913)
"Another notable example of sound descriptive of the sense is Kipling's "Mandalay,"
with its tone-coloring of the "tinkly temple-bells:" No! you won't 'eed ..."
5. The Spell of Spain by Keith Clark (1914)
"Sad as it all was, we could not remain away. Those " tinkly temple bells," and
they are tinkly and thin, sounded like the East a-calling. ..."
6. The Spell of Spain by Keith Clark (1914)
"Sad as it all was, we could not remain away. Those " tinkly temple bells," and
they are tinkly and thin, sounded like the East a-calling. ..."
7. We; a Confession of Faith for the American People During and After the War by Gerald Stanley Lee (1916)
"I see it always as a kind of Rescue Mission or Hope Mission for Peace, a little
tinkly chapel, with a little tinkly bell, a little jingle of money —to call ..."
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