Definitions for tinker

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tinker tin·ker

Spelling: [ting-ker]

IPA: /ˈtɪŋ kər/

Tinker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in tinker (eiknrt).

Definitions for tinker

noun

1. a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.
2. an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler.
3. a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack-of-all-trades.
4. an act or instance of tinkering:
5. Scot., Irish English. a gypsy. any itinerant worker. a wanderer. a beggar.
6. chub mackerel.

verb (used with object)

1. to mend as a tinker.
2. to repair in an unskillful, clumsy, or makeshift way.

verb (used without object)

1. to busy oneself with a thing without useful results:
2. to work unskillfully or clumsily at anything.
3. to do the work of a tinker.

Origin of tinker

1225-75; Middle English tinkere (noun), syncopated variant of tinekere worker in tin

Examples for tinker

Oh, sure, if it would attract a few token Republican votes, they were willing to tinker with the price tag.

He did not go down to the Lake this day, lest he should come near the tinker.

"That will I not do, even to mine own brother," answered the tinker.

He could spell the names of all his classmates, and he loved building with Lincoln Logs and tinker Toys.

tinker with these positions, several sages are quoted as saying, and the GOP will be back in the game.

"But nought have I to pay thee with, good fellow," quoth the tinker.

[Laughs] KROLL: The “tinker Stinker” I like, in that it felt like a true labeling of something that happens.

"Nay," quoth the tinker, shaking his head slowly from side to side.

You could tinker with them so they would boil but then the cops could take it away for being an ‘altered item’.

He can tinker up almost anything, and that eliminates the blacksmith.