atinkle

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Etymology

From a- +‎ tinkle.

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Adjective

atinkle (not comparable)

  1. Making a tinkling sound.
    • 1876, Venier Voldo, A Song of America‎, New York: Hanscom, Canto 2, page 33:
      The mountain vale, arousing Ocean, sings,
      And all the air’s a-tinkle as with strings;
    • 1894, Kenneth Grahame, “The Fairy Wicket” in Pagan Papers, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, p. 91,
      every copse and hedge-row seems a-tinkle with faint elfish laughter.
    • 1912, Sarojini Naidu, “A Rajput Love Song”, in The Bird of Time,‎, London: Heinemann, page 29:
      O Love! were you the hooded hawk upon my hand that flutters,
      Its collar-band of gleaming bells atinkle as I ride,
    • 1984, Peter Davison, “Impossible People”, in Praying Wrong‎, New York: Atheneum, pages 8–9:
      Impossibles march gaily for Gay Pride,
      ashaming any spectator a marcher would
      yearn to be matey with, mincing
      atinkle with bangles and lavender marcel
    • 1995, Angela Carter, “The Snow Pavilion”, in Burning Your Boats‎, New York: Henry Holt, published 1996, page 432:
      Somewhere inside a full-mouthed bell tolled; its reverberations set the chandelier a-tinkle

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