tinkling

tinkling (plural tinklings)

1. A tinkle; a tinkling sound.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 591:

     The merry piano tinklings were gone.

2. (Jamaica) The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
3. The action of the verb to tinkle

tinkling (not comparable)

1. That tinkles.

   "A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you.

   • 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Paul's Letter to American Christians”, in Strength to Love‎^[1], New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 163:

     American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, you are like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.

2. (obsolete) That works as a tinker

tinkling

1. present participle and gerund of tinkle