tinky, noun
/ˈtɪŋki/
Short form of tinktinkie.
1899 Fitzsimons in R.B. & J.D.S. Woodward Natal Birds 30The boys call it (sc. Cisticola terrestris) the little ‘Tinky,’ from its cry of ‘tink, tink, tink’.
1973 J. Cowden For Love 66Another visitor was a Tinkie, quite at home in eagle landscape where he achieved fame and his South African name...We laughed at this impudent miniature as he brightly reminded us of the story himself, of how he bested the eagle to become King Tinkie.
Short form of tinktinkie.
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