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Definition of Tinker
1. Noun. A person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts.
2. Verb. Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly. "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"
Specialized synonyms: Puddle
Generic synonyms: Work
Derivative terms: Potterer, Putterer, Tinkerer, Tinkerer
3. Noun. 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.
4. Verb. Work as a tinker or tinkerer.
5. Noun. Small mackerel found nearly worldwide.
Generic synonyms: Mackerel
Group relationships: Genus Scomber, Scomber
6. Verb. Try to fix or mend. "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"
Generic synonyms: Bushel, Doctor, Fix, Furbish Up, Mend, Repair, Restore, Touch On
Derivative terms: Fiddler
Definition of Tinker
1. n. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
2. v. t. To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.
3. v. i. To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.
Definition of Tinker
1. Proper noun. A northern English occupational surname for someone who mends pots and pans ¹
2. Noun. an itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of tin ¹
3. Noun. (dated chiefly British and Irish offensive) A member of the travelling community. A gypsy. ¹
4. Noun. (context: usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster. ¹
5. Noun. Someone who repairs, or attempts repair on anything mechanical (tinkers) or invents. ¹
6. Noun. The act of repair or invention. ¹
7. Verb. to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner ¹
8. Verb. to work as a tinker ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinker
1. to repair in an unskilled or experimental manner [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Tinker
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1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. "Tailors and tinkers."
2. One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.
3. A small mortar on the end of a staff.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinker
Literary usage of Tinker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1851)
"The tinker was seated under a hedge, hammering away at an old kettle—with a little
fir« burning in front of him—and the donkey hard by, indulging in a ..."
2. Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton (1882)
"forest a very sturdy Tinker, having a good staff on his shoulder, ... So Tom
asked the Tinker from whence he came and whither he was going ? as that was no ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"The following is a true and singularly remarkable story of a pigeon captured by Mr.
Tinker, a teamster of the Forty-second New-York volunteers, ..."
4. Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now by Joseph Ritson, Joseph Frank, Thomas Bewick (1832)
"ROBIN HOOD AND THE Tinker. From an old black letter copy in the library of Anthony
Wood. The full title is, " A new song to drive away cold winter, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Munches (tinker), tobacco. Munds, mans (thieves), the mouth. ... Mushroom - faker,
mush - faker (tinker and popular), umbrella- maker or mender. Music. ..."
6. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1851)
"Richard Peters, JA Letter from Governor Tinker requesting that the Provisions,
&c., might be Shipped for the use of him and Garrison at Providence, ..."
7. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1864)
"ROBIN HOOD AND THE Tinker. Kitson's Robin Hood, ii. 41. FROM an old black-letter
copy in the library of Anthony a Wood. The full title is, ..."
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