Definitions
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- adverb With a
tinkling sound.
Etymologies
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tinkling + -ly
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Examples
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The Club has been convened in many different places: in resorts of pride and in low-ceiled reeky taphouses; in hotels where those clear cubes of unprofitable ice knock tinklingly in the goblets; in the brightly tinted cellars of Greenwich Village; in the saloons of ships.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923
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a handful of silver which she permitted to trickle, tinklingly, from one palm to the other.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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