tinker
修补匠,修补师,修补匠人,修补者
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : an act or instance of tinkering: Let me have a tinker at that motor.
- : Scot., Irish English. a Romani living in the British Isles; a Traveler. any itinerant worker.a wanderer. a beggar.
- : chub mackerel.
- 1
- : 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.
- 1
- : to mend as a tinker.
- : to repair in an unskillful, clumsy, or makeshift way.
Phrases
- tinker with
- not worth a damn (tinker's damn)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
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.