Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To produce or emit a fine, sharp, jingling sound, as of a small metallic body striking upon a larger one; make a tinkling noise.
- n. A tinking or tinkling sound.
- To mend as a tinker.
Wiktionary
- v. To emit a high-pitched noise.
- n. dated A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.
- v. knitting, slang, transitive To unknit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle.
- n. A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make or emit a high sound
Etymologies
- knit spelled backwards. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The tip landed in the middle of his bony chest and skated over each rib, going * tink, tink, tink* through the handle, like”
“In Singaporean English (known as Singlish), think is pronounced "tink," and theories is "tee-oh-rees.”
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“Lovers stroll by on dirt paths; metal petanque balls "tink" against each other nearby.”
“At one school, for example, state auditors complained that teachers pronounced "words such as violet as 'biolet,' think as 'tink' and swallow the ending sounds of words, as they sometimes do in Spanish.”
“Reports from state auditors say some teachers pronounce words such as think as "tink" and violet as "biolet" and leave off the ending sounds of words, saying "doin" instead of "doing.”
“While the steel clubs produced the agreeable 'tink' of a well-hit shot, the titanium ones were much louder, described by some as similar to a gun being fired.”
“Listen for the "tink" of hitting the rail telling me I'm getting close.”
“The pedal now clunked againsed the chain guard, and made a nice rythmic "tink" with each revolution.”
“They found the noise generated by the titanium clubs hitting a golf ball is far louder than the "tink" of the steel club making a shot.”
“Who the heck gets up on a summer's day with the anticipation of the "tink" of the bat ringing in their heads?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tink’.
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Words without the letter E
chord, slur, anabaptist, anabolic, diabolic, turbid, torpid, somniloquist, trump, bipolar, dioxin, hydrocarbon and 107 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like.
(dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 102 more...
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rastafari
dem woodz assoseeated wit da reegae mon..
( Reggae, Rastafari, Rasta, Jamaica, Zion, Haile Selassie, Africa, Caribbean )
( slang, randomness )Rastafari, puff, Jah, reggae, Haile Selassie, Jamaica, Kingston, Caribbean, Dominican, Zion, Africa, cannabis and 81 more...
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Knitting Terms
frog, tink, knit, purl, cast on, cable, fagoting, stitchfallen, slip stitch, suture, garter stitch, stockinette stitch and 3 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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Jamaican patois
"I and I plant the corn..."
i and i, rudeboy, ragamuffin, youth, dem, jamrock, jamden, fat 'matic, likkle, tuff, whe, inna and 132 more...
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Favorite Words
i love words.
ricochet, clavicle, etymology, equivocate, decoupage, dillydally, effervescent, flimflam, haberdashery, hullabaloo, debacle, juxtapose and 210 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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wordn't-you-just-know-it
autopolyploid, stimthought, vandanbladderstiddle, word's eye view, ménagerie à trois, technonotice, bluebell, slanticular, ante-jentacular, splunge, turkish room, uxorial and 770 more...
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Discordial
Annoying, loud, or awful sounds.
portamento, scroop, clangor, plangent, stentorian, hubbub, cacophony, burble, guggle, donder, sough, racket and 82 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Schoolyard Suicide
See Dick run; see Dick cower, see Dick flinch, see Dick yowl; see Dick slink, see Dick lick, see Dick swell; see Dick slur "nudding" to nosy quidnuncs.
pejorative, nomenclature, deign, comestible, epicene, tarry, sobriquet, comport, querulous, inveigle, rococo, sotto voce and 69 more...
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maux Also a knitting term meaning to undo a knitting project one stitch at a time, as opposed to "frogging" which undoes many stitches at a time. Origin: "knit" spelled backwards. Dec 1, 2010
marky Jamaican slang for 'think'. Nov 6, 2010