tinker
IPA: tˈɪŋkɝ
noun
- An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
- (dated, chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups. A gypsy.
- (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
- Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
- The act of repair or invention.
- (military, obsolete) A hand mortar.
- Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
- A bird, the razor-billed auk.
- A northern English surname originating as an occupation for someone who mends pots and pans.
verb
- (intransitive) To work as a tinker.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
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Examples of "tinker" in Sentences
- She is married to a tinker.
- His dream was once a tinker.
- When did you become a tinker
- He is the son of grant tinker.
- Who would want to be a tinker
- It was his first work as a tinker.
- He is the famous tinker in the town.
- He went to the school to become a tinker.
- I am sorry about the incessant tinkering.
- His grandfather was the last tinker in the town.
- I am criticised for the expression tinker up in the preface.
- Though he is usually called a tinker, Bunyan had a settled home and place of business.
- But this good feeling surrounding the word tinker is a complete turnaround for the word.
- I think it's pretty common and as such the word tinker has a vaguely positive tone to it.
- J has called her tinker bell since tuesday so I guess the poor baby has a nickname already.
- A tinker is a tinker wherever you find him, a strong farmer a strong farmer, a landlord a landlord.
- To many people, guns are like cars before cars were operated by 18 computers; the urge to tinker is irresistible.
- I think the freedom to tinker is a key, fundamental freedom whose importance is growing as we depend more and more on software and computer hardware.
- Particularly in the north of England and Scotland the word tinker was applied not only to people who roamed around fixing kitchenware, but to any vagrant or itinerant.
- Whilst drinking his beer he cheered the heart of the sorrowful Jack Slingsby by buying his whole tinker's stock-in-trade -- beat, plant, pony, and all -- concluding that "a tinker is his own master, a scholar is not."
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