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Tinker   /tˈɪŋkər/   Listen
Tinker

noun
1.
A person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts.  Synonym: tinkerer.
2.
Formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living.
3.
Small mackerel found nearly worldwide.  Synonyms: chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus.
verb
(past & past part. tinkered; pres. part. tinkering)
1.
Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly.  Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter.
2.
Work as a tinker or tinkerer.
3.
Try to fix or mend.  Synonym: fiddle.  "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"



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"Tinker" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the theme of the taming of a wife is crude and primitive folk-farce, particularly suited to the taste of the drunken tinker before whom it ...
— Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies • Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke
... subject, divagating as we went, and had a nice little sentimental conversation. There are depths of human feeling I should never have suspected in this lazy panther of a woman, and although she openly avows having no more education than a tinker's dog, she can talk with considerable ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... and dependants presented to them the more animated and interesting spectacle of a struggle for his usurped power. Richard perhaps, and the immediate friends of the deceased Protector, with such of Dryden's relations as were attached to his memory, may have thought, like the tinker at the Taming of the Shrew, that this same elegy was "marvellous good matter." It did not probably attract much general attention. The first edition, in 1659, is extremely rare: it was reprinted, however, along with those ...
— The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Vol. I. - With a Life of the Author • Sir Walter Scott
... that town, and stuck in the stocks, and whipped and worried and drove. I've no more notion where I was born than you have—if so much. I first become aware of myself down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living. Summun had run away from me—a man—a tinker—and he'd took the fire with him, and ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
... like you'd fight a man for your life, or you'll be in the horse latitudes, as they call them, and no breeze stirring, and not a damned thing to do but holystone decks, the like of an old pauper that does be scrubbing a poorhouse floor. And you say: 'Sure I'd rather be a tinker traveling the roads, with his ass and cart and dog and woman, nor a galley-slave to this bastard of a mate that has no more feeling for a poor sailorman nor a hound has for a rabbit. It's a dog's life,' you say, 'and when we make port ...
— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne


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