ting-a-ling

[ ting-uh-ling ]

noun

1. a repeated tinkling sound, as of a telephone bell.

ting-a-ling

/ ˈtɪŋəˈlɪŋ /

noun

1. the sound of a small bell

Word History and Origins

Origin of ting-a-ling¹

First recorded in 1860–65; imitative rhyming compound

Example Sentences

Everything bears the heft of truth, from the description of Manzanar to the Ting-a-ling Candy Shop, a real store that once stood at the corner of Chicago’s Dearborn and Division streets.

From Los Angeles Times

Hershey produced an altered version of its popular holiday ad, which since 1989 had featured a ting-a-ling bell choir of Hershey’s Kisses.

From New York Times

Ting-a-ling! went the rising bell, and Billy Bunny opened his left eye and twinkled his nose and stretched his right hind leg, and then he was wide awake.

From Project Gutenberg

When she practically adopts Ling, a Chinese Communist girl and a very nice dish, every male in the vicinity begins to go ting-a-ling, and Author Boulle has a field day trying to prove that men are men, women are women, and do-gooder females do not know East from West even when they are facing in the right direction.

From Time Magazine Archive

The front-door bell was constantly going ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling!

From Project Gutenberg