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  1. noun A single light metallic sound, as of a small bell.
  2. intransitive verb To give forth a light metallic sound.

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  • If you don't love communication and communica-ting, then by the power of Greyskull, get the hell out! —  MountainRunner
  • I wonder if a blue envelope and postal vote campaign would work in Creeting St Peter? —  Liberal Bureaucracy
  • So I'se jess made up my mind to make a clean bress ob de hul ting, and tell what I heern an' see, besides deliverin' up boaf dat letter an' picter. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • De bery ting, as like you it was as two pease, even to de small mole on side ob you's nose, but it say not'ing 'bout you's feet. —  The Madman and the Pirate
  • At the same moment the voice of a child was heard Oh, look!--look 'ere, nuss, ain't I cotched a pritty ting--such a pritty ting Springing through the gate, Dobson beheld Master Junkie, staggering up the track like a drunken man, with one hand clasped tight round the throat of a snake whose body and tail were twining round the chubby arm of its captor in a vain effort at freedom, while its forked tongue darted out viciously. —  The Settler and the Savage
 

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  1. From Middle English tingen, to cause to ring, of imitative origin.

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  1. Also tink, and freq. tingle, tinkle; from Middle English tingen =Middle Dutch tinghen, tinkle; cf. Middle Dutch tintelen, ring, tinkle, Dutch tintelen, tingle, sparkle, Latin tinnire, tinkle, ring (see tinnient), Late Latin tintinnum, a ringing (see tintinnabulum), Late Latin freq. tinnitare (later F. tinter), ring, tinkle. Cf. chink, clink, ring, etc.; also tang, ding, ding-dong, all ult. imitative words.
  2. from ting, v.
 

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