tink

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Tink, tink, tink--clear as a silver bell, and audible at every pause of the streets' harsher noises, as though it said, "I don't care; nothing puts me out; I am resolved to be happy 2.

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  1. To produce or emit a fine, sharp, jingling sound, as of a small metallic body striking upon a larger one; make a tinkling noise. A helmeted figure … alighted … on the floor amidst a shower of splinters and tinking glass. C. Reade, Hard Cash, xliii.
  2. A tinking or tinkling sound. How it chimes, and cries tink in the close, divinely ! B. Jonson, Epicœne, ii. 2.
  3. To mend as a tinker. The Worlde and the Childe (1552).

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  • Member once wen I didn't tink, an ee put de wuk on de plantation bac two days. —  Before the War, and After the Union. An Autobiography.
  • The etymological dictionaries I consulted have quite a range of opinions as to why someone who wandered from village to village fixing pots and pans might be called a tinker. tink, tink, tink-gave them their name. —  podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
  • The pedal now clunked againsed the chain guard, and made a nice rythmic "tink" with each revolution. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • FWOOMPH tink-tink-tee-tink, tink tee tinktinktink tee ... —  The Great Pumpkin
  • Did I mention the girl under wear with wrong sayings and Tinkerbell ... nothing against tink or anything but it offers a way to wrong message for our young ones (girls AND boys) ... yikes! —  Progressive U - The new media voice for students
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  1. from Middle English tinken; cf. Welsh tincio, tink, tinkle; imitative, like ting. Hence freq. tinkle, and tinker.
  2. from tink, v.
  3. from tinker, taken as ‘one who mends,’ though it means literally ‘one who makes a tinking sound.’ Cf. burgle from burglar, tile from tiler, etc.
 

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