Tinker

Quick meaning: Tinker is a noun meaning An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.

Meaning

An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.

More Meanings

1. (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
2. Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
3. (informal) An act of repair or invention.
4. (military, obsolete) A hand mortar.
5. Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
6. A razor-billed auk, a bird of species (Alca torda).
7. (dated, chiefly British and Ireland, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups; a gypsy.

Example Sentences

I'll have a tinker and see what I can do.

the broken bureau-lock and tinkered window-pane

And because he wants to show that he is a dominant male, he tinkered the engine of his motorbike to make it even noisier.

The blacksmith chased us all to ground They searched all night we were never found The tinker boys and the sheriff's men Shaking the tallest tree.

Word Forms

• tinkers
• tinkering
• tinkered

Synonyms for tinker

Depending on context, synonyms include rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrel, traveller.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include potter, mender, monkey, putter, cloche, alter.

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