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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



... who is dressed up as "My lord," for whom the play had been prepared. (In the writer's possession there is a very curious and absolutely unique masonic painting revealing "on the square" that the drunken tinker is Shakspeare and ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... it not unfrequently happens that a tinker or coal- heaver hears a sermon or falls in with a tract which alarms him about the state of his soul. If he be a man of excitable nerves and strong imagination, he thinks himself given over to the Evil Power. He doubts ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... dear! its ma is making patty-cakes; and put it up there to be out of the way of Tom Tinker's dog. I'll soon hush it up," said the old woman; and, trotting it on her knee, she began ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott
... M was a miser, and hoarded up gold: N was a nobleman, gallant and bold; O was an oyster girl, and went about town; P was a parson, and wore a black gown; Q was a queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a robber, and wanted a whip; S was a sailor, and spent all he got; T was a tinker, and mended a pot; U was an usurer, a miserable elf; V was a vintner, who drank all himself; W was a watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor; Y was a youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... more remarkable than the play itself: a drunken tinker, removed in his sleep to a palace, where he is deceived into the belief of being a nobleman. The invention, however, is not Shakspeare's. Holberg has handled the same subject in a masterly manner, and with inimitable truth; but he has spun it out to five acts, for which such material ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black


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