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Etymology

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After a fairy in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1902), in which the name is spelled Tinker Bell. She was described by Barrie as a fairy who mended pots and kettles, like an actual tinker, and her speech consists of the sounds of a tinkling bell.

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Noun

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Tinkerbell (plural Tinkerbells)

Anything whose existence or power depends on the faith of believers.
- 1988, Caroline Arden, Getting the Donkey Out of the Ditch: The Democratic Party in Search of Itself, page 104:I characterize it as the "Tinkerbell Approach" to policy development: It might work if all the children would just believe hard enough and clap their hands
- 1994, Alice Thomas Ellis, Cat Among the Pigeons: A Catholic Miscellany, page 57:Sometimes I get the impression that the Tinkerbell theory is taking over: that the existence of God is dependent on our own existence and perceptions.
- 2003, William Lehr, Lorenzo M. Pupillo, Cyber policy and economics in an internet age, page 92:The New.net venture underlined an important principle: ICANN's authority over the DNS root is fundamentally subject to the "Tinkerbell" principle.
(slang, derogatory, offensive) A homosexual or effeminate man.
- 1986, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee, Federal and Local Governments' Response to the AIDS Epidemic, page 287:When he confronted his boss he screamed at him about being gay and fired him saying he didn't want "Tinkerbells" working for him.

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Tinkerbell line

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Arabic: تينكربيل f
Armenian: Դին Դին (Din Din)
Basque: Txilintxo
Catalan: Campaneta f
Chinese: Mandarin: 小叮噹 / 小叮当 (Xiǎo dīngdāng)
Czech: Zvonilka f
Danish: Klokkeblomst (Disney. Lit. "bellflower")
Dutch: Tinkelbel f
Finnish: Helinä (fi)
French: Clochette f, Fée Clochette f
Hebrew: טינקר בל f, טינקרבל f
Hindi: टिंकर बेल f (ṭiṅkar bel)
Italian: Campanellino f, Trilli f, Trilli Campanellino f
Japanese: ティンカー・ベル (Tinkā Beru)
Korean: 팅커벨 (tingkeobel), 팅커 벨 (tingkeo bel)
Malayalam: ടിങ്കർ ബെൽ (ṭiṅkaṟ bel)
Norwegian: Tingeling f
Persian: تینکربل
Portuguese: Sininho (pt) f
Russian: Динь-Ди́нь f (Dinʹ-Dínʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Звончица f Roman: Zvončica f
Sicilian: Cianciana f
Spanish: (South America) Campanita f, (Spain) Campanilla f
Swedish: Tingeling c
Telugu: టింకర్ బెల్ (ṭiṅkar bel)

Tinkerbell - Wiktionary

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English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

Tinker Bell | Disney Fairies Wiki - Fandom

Meaning Of Tinkerbell In Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English

What Does Tinkerbell Mean?

What Does Tinkerbell Mean? - YourDictionary

Tinkerbell - Urban Dictionary

Tinker Bell - Disney Fairies

8 Things You Didn't Know About Tinker Bell - Celebrations Press

Tinker Bell | Fictional Character - Encyclopedia Britannica

Tinker Bell Is, Guess What, A Tinkerer - ReDiscover Center

Tinkerbell: Meaning, Origin, Translation - WordSense Dictionary

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