tinkle

verb

1. (intransitive)To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.

   “The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.”

   “The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.”

   “With a sound like tinkling bells, far off in a land of shepherds hidden by some hill, the waters of many fountains turned again home.”

2. (transitive)To cause to tinkle.
3. (transitive)To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.

   “The butler tinkled dinner.”

4. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.

   “And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.”

5. (informal, intransitive)To urinate.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.

   “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.”

   “She laughed, her voice a tinkle in the silence of the circular chamber.”

   “At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. . . . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.”

2. (UK, countable, informal, uncountable)A telephone call.

   “Give me a tinkle when you arrive.”

3. (countable, euphemistic, informal, uncountable)An act of urination.
4. (countable, euphemistic, informal, uncountable)Urine.

name

1. A surname.