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Definition of Tinkerer
1. Noun. An unskilled person who tries to fix or mend.
2. Noun. A person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts.
Definition of Tinkerer
1. Noun. Agent noun of tinker; one who tinkers with things. ¹
2. Noun. A meddler. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinkerer
1. one that tinkers [n -S] - See also: tinkers
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinkerer
Literary usage of Tinkerer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Feebly Inhibited: Nomadism, Or the Wandering Impulse, with Special by Charles Benedict Davenport (1915)
"4, 20, 38), tinkerer (No. 56), "ran away to go to war," "wandering while insane."
Just as the nomadic races live by hunting and fishing, it is suggestive to ..."
2. The Feebly Inhibited: Nomadism, Or the Wandering Impulse, with Special by Charles Benedict Davenport (1915)
"4, 20, 38), tinkerer (No. 56), "ran away to go to war," "wandering while insane."
Just as the nomadic races live by hunting and fishing, it is suggestive to ..."
3. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1895)
"... brought before us in such a practical manner by Dr. Baldwin, and the essayist
is very correct in saying that the uterine tinkerer is a thing of the past ..."
4. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by [Anonymus AC02789944] (1920)
"... their whaling and their fleets, and that what came after was him — a tinkerer
with other men's boats, a ship's carpenter who 'd even work on houses. ..."
5. Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick (1922)
"But if God were to come back again he could not return as an occasional tinkerer;
he had to come as the life in all that lives, the indwelling presence ..."
6. Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990 by Nian-Sheng Huang (1994)
"Critics would say that his achievements were so simple and unsophisticated tha
he was no more than a tinkerer. ..."
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