tinkling noun 3adjective 2forms 1 noun3 •A tinkle; a tinkling sound.The merry piano tinklings were gone. — 1959 •The action of the verb to tinkle •The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger. adjective2 •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. — 1936 •(no longer used) That works as a tinker formstinklings
