ALL meanings of tinker
tin·ker
T t - 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
- verb without object tinker to busy oneself with a thing without useful results: Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop. 1
- verb without object tinker to work unskillfully or clumsily at anything. 1
- verb without object tinker to do the work of a tinker. 1
- verb with object tinker to mend as a tinker. 1
- verb with object tinker to repair in an unskillful, clumsy, or makeshift way. 1
- intransitive verb tinker play with sth 1
- intransitive verb tinker try to fix sth 1
- noun tinker travelling repair man 1
- noun tinker gypsy 1
- verb tinker If you tinker with something, you make some small changes to it, in an attempt to improve it or repair it. 0
- countable noun tinker In former times, a tinker was a person who did not have a fixed home, but travelled from place to place mending metal pots and doing other small repair jobs. 0
- countable noun tinker Some people refer to any traveller or gipsy, especially one who is Irish, as a tinker. 0
- noun tinker (esp formerly) a travelling mender of pots and pans 0
- noun tinker a clumsy worker 0
- noun tinker the act of tinkering 0
- noun tinker a mischievous child 0
- noun tinker any of several small mackerels that occur off the North American coast of the Atlantic 0
- verb tinker to play, fiddle, or meddle (with machinery, etc), esp while undertaking repairs 0
- verb tinker to mend (pots and pans) as a tinker 0
- noun tinker a usually itinerant person who mends pots, pans, etc. 0
- noun tinker Gypsy (sense 1) 0
- noun tinker a person who can make all kinds of minor repairs; jack-of-all-trades 0
- noun tinker a clumsy or unskillful worker; bungler 0
- noun tinker a young mackerel 0
- intransitive verb tinker to work as a tinker 0
- intransitive verb tinker to make clumsy or tentative attempts to mend or repair something 0
- intransitive verb tinker to fuss or putter aimlessly or uselessly 0
- verb transitive tinker to mend as a tinker; patch up 0