tinkering
修修补补,修补,修整,修理
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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.
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- : 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.
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- : 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
Ford began tinkering in his garage in Detroit in the 1890s, trains and the horse and buggy was the dominant mode of transport.
Once a lease is signed, the most people can generally accomplish is “technical tinkering rather than radical reform,” she says.
And it especially strengthens those who look to meet massive challenges with little more than small-scale policy tinkering.
There is no improvising, no tinkering with the script and very little room for actors to suggest improvements.
It refers to what Americans call eau-de-vie, though Austrians have been tinkering with and perfecting the drink for centuries.
In the dawnlight he saw Welborn and Landy tinkering with the old model that had brought them so valiantly through the mountains.
Bernice saw that Warren's eyes had left a ukulele he had been tinkering with and were fixed on her questioningly.
I wish to Heaven you would get him to leave off tinkering those commercial treaties that he is always making such a fuss about.
But all this tinkering has left very sorry scars, and even the tower outside has not been spared.
A house is never really finished until one loses interest in it and stops tinkering and planning homely improvements.