2give somebody a tinkleBritish EnglishBrE old-fashioned informalTCT to call someone on the telephone 给某人打电话
I’ll give you a tinkle tomorrow.
我明天给你打电话。
Examples from the Corpus
give somebody a tinkle• Hop on over to the end of the road and give her a tinkle.
3.have a tinkleBritish EnglishBrE spokenHBH to urinate (=pass water from your body) – used especially by children or when talking to children 撒尿,尿尿〔尤为儿语〕
1CS[intransitiveI, transitiveT] to make light ringing sounds, or to make something do this (使)发出叮当声
a tinkling bell
叮当作响的铃铛
2[intransitiveI] spoken to urinate (=pass water from your body) – used especially by children or when talking to children 撒尿,尿尿〔尤为儿语〕
Do you have to go tinkle?
你要撒尿吗?
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tinkle• The ring fell from her hands and went tinkling across the floor.• It tinkled, an old-world merriness.• Bells tinkled as she opened the door.• The Monsignortensed with the sound of flatwareclanking and tinkling in the kitchen.• I rang the bell and heard it tinkleinside.• There was a typewriter involved too and as the lift went up and down the typewriter's bell tinkled metallically.• The tinkling of busted glass, the sucking of his bottle.• From down the hall came the sound of tinklingsilverware and the scrape of a chair being settled in its place.• Tabitha's headset suddenly locked into an ambientchannel and began to tinkle with tinnysalsa.
Origintinkle2
(1300-1400)tink“to tinkle”((14-17 centuries)); from the sound