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tinker

tin·ker
T t

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [ting-ker]
    • /ˈtɪŋ kər/
    • /ˈtɪŋ.kər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [ting-ker]
    • /ˈtɪŋ kər/

Definitions of tinker word

  • noun tinker a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant. 1
  • noun tinker an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler. 1
  • noun tinker a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack-of-all-trades. 1
  • noun tinker an act or instance of tinkering: Let me have a tinker at that motor. 1
  • noun tinker Scot., Irish English. a gypsy. any itinerant worker. a wanderer. a beggar. 1
  • noun tinker chub mackerel. 1

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Origin of tinker

First appearance:

before 1225
One of the 9% oldest English words
1225-75; Middle English tinkere (noun), syncopated variant of tinekere worker in tin

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Tinker

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

tinker popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

tinker usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for tinker

verb tinker

  • doodle — a small pile of hay; haystack.
  • goof around — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
  • intermeddle — to take part in a matter, especially officiously; meddle.
  • messing — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
  • mess around — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.

noun tinker

  • migrant — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
  • mover — a person or thing that moves.
  • departer — a person who refines metals by separating them from alloys
  • evacuee — A person evacuated from a place of danger to somewhere safe.
  • migrator — (computing) A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.

Antonyms for tinker

verb tinker

  • ferret — a narrow tape or ribbon, as of silk or cotton, used for binding, trimming, etc.
  • ferreting — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
  • grub — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.

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