tinker 的 3 个定义
- a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.
- an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler.
- a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack-of-all-trades.
- (6)
- to busy oneself with a thing without useful results: Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.
- to work unskillfully or clumsily at anything.
- to do the work of a tinker.
- to mend as a tinker.
- to repair in an unskillful, clumsy, or makeshift way.
tinker 近义词
fiddle with
由tinker构成的短语
- tinker with
- not worth a damn (tinker's damn)
更多tinker例句
- You could tinker with them so they would boil but then the cops could take it away for being an ‘altered item’.
- He could spell the names of all his classmates, and he loved building with Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys.
- [Laughs] KROLL: The “Tinker Stinker” I like, in that it felt like a true labeling of something that happens.
- More like used tinker toys in a world of killer apps and drones.
- Oh, sure, if it would attract a few token Republican votes, they were willing to tinker with the price tag.
- For that matter, he said, he didn't care a tinker's dam if we were; he had grub and bedding and we were welcome to both.
- Mr. Giles directed an appealing glance at the tinker, but he had suddenly fallen asleep.
- Tinker received a scimitar from the hands of Mr. Figgins, and flourished it gaily round his head.
- Tinker hopped round him as nimbly as a tomtit or a jackdaw, and presently gave him another little taste of his steel.
- But Tinker and his man were not at all put out by these strange demonstrations upon the part of the ladies.