Tinker

Definition: Tinker

Tinker

Noun

1. Someone who is employed to repair broken things.

2. Small mackerel found nearly worldwide.

Verb

1. Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tinker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Tinker \Tink"er\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Tinkered; Tinkering.]. (references)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Tinker

Health

Return to health; recover; get better; (improve); take a new lease of life, fresh lease of life; recruit; restore to health; cure; (restore); tinker.

Restoration

Tinker, cobbler; vis medicatrix; (remedy). curableness.

Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

Crosswords: Tinker

We're going to cut you open and tinker with your ticker (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailors lives (DANDELION; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Tinker (1948)

The Tinker of Stubbenville (1915)

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Books

• Tinker and Tom and the Star Baby [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cute and Cuddly Critters: Tinker the Otter (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tinker (reference)

• Tinker Compilation (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• You Can Fly! with Tinker Bell (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Swiss Army Tinker Pocket Knife (reference)

• VICTORINOX Deluxe Tinker Swiss Army Knife (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Capt. Deidre Cacchilo, 433rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, egresses the aircraft with the help of crewmember Master Sgt. Rick Erwin, 465th Air Refueling Squadron, Tinker AFB, Okla. The simulated fire on board and egress exe.

Joseph Tinker. Credit: Library of Congress.

Joe Tinker. Credit: Library of Congress.

Edgar Lennox/Jos. B. Tinker. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rockford, Ill., the tinker cottage. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tinker": have a tinker at ♦ tinker about ♦ Tinker Afb ♦ tinker up. Additional references.

Beginning with "tinker": Tinker-belle, tinker-looking, tinker-tailoring.

Albanian

remtar shetitës, punëtor i pazoti, kallajxhi (tinkler, tinman, tinsmith), kallajis (tin, tin plate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متعدد الحرف (handyman), ‏متجول (busk, gadabout, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, traveling, travelling, wandering), ‏سمكري متجول, ‏زور (counterfeit, forge, ghost, spectrum, tamper), ‏عفريت (demon, evil genius, evil spirit, genius, gnome, goblin, imp, pixy, puck, rascal, rogue), ‏عمل بغير براعة (boggle, muff), ‏عامل غير بارع (bungler, cobbler), ‏أصلح الصفائح, ‏أصلح بغير براعة, ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench), ‏شغل نفسه بشيء ما, ‏بوهيمي متجول. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скърпвам (fudge, piece together, piece up, vamp), калайджия, калайдисвам (tin, tin plate), нескопосник (bungler), мъча се да поправя, занимавам се с калайджийство, бърникам (fool around with, fumble, meddle, mess about, mess around, monkey, tamper), поправям на бърза ръка. (various references)

Chinese 

修補匠 , 修补破铜铁者. (various references)

Czech

záplatovat (patch), spravovat kotle, fušovat, dráteník. (various references)

Dutch

ketellapper. (various references)

Esperanto

kaldronisto. (various references)

Farsi 

وصله کاری , تعمیرکردن (Imp, Mend, Patch, Refashion, Refit, Rehash, Remodel, Renovate, Repair, Restore, Vamp), سرهم بندی (Shakeup), بندزن , بندزدن (Garter, Joggle, Leash). (various references)

Finnish

näperrellä (potter about). (various references)

French

bricoler. (various references)

German

basteln (do handicraft, do handicrafts, make things with smb.'s hands, mess about, mess around). (various references)

Greek 

γανωματήσ, γανωματής, μπαλώνω (cobble, darn, mend, vamp), μαστόρεμα, μαστορεύω (tinker with), χαλκωματάσ (coppersmith), επιδιορθωτήσ μετάλλινων σκεύων, τενεκετζήσ (tinman, tinner, tinsmith), διορθώ ατεχνώσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לתקן כלי פח, לנסות לתקן, תקון שלומיאלי, פחה. (various references)

Hungarian

bádogos (tinman, tinner, tinsmith, Whitesmith), rossz munkás, kontármunka (botch, botchery, bungle), kolompár, fuser (bungler, gimp, lunk, lunkhead, scamper, slob, slubberer, spoiler), drótostót, cigány (bohemian, egyptian, gippo, gipsy, gypsy, rom, romany, tinkler, tzigane), üstfoltozó. (various references)

Indonesian

gerupis (putter at, tinker at). (various references)

Italian

stagnino ambulante, rattoppare (botch, cobble, mend, patch, patch up), petroliera (tanker). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

いじり回す (cheerfully, excitedly, flirt, make out, to dally, to flirt with, to tinker with, to twist up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いじりまわす (to tinker with, to twist up). (various references)

Korean 

땜장이 (tinkerer). (various references)

Manx

tingleyragh, tingleyr. (various references)

Pig Latin

inkertay.(various references)

Portuguese

trabalhador desajeitado, remendo (botch, clout, mend, mending, patch, piece), remendão (cobbler, mender, sloven), latoeiro (tinman, tinner, tin-smith, whitesmith), funileiro (plumber, tinman, tinner, tin-smith, whitesmith), arranjo de amador. (various references)

Romanian

meseriaş prost, drege (arrange, darn, doctor, Flavor, flavour, juggle, mend, piece, readjust, refit, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retouch, season, set to rights, spice, vamp up), cositori (blanch, tin), cãldãrar (boiler maker, brazier), arãmar (brazier, coppersmith). (various references)

Russian 

возиться медник, медник (brazier, coppersmith, copper-smith, tinkler), лудить (tin, tin plate), лудильщик (plater, tinsmith). (various references)

Scottish

cèard (any class of smith). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrzmati se (dart, move around, putter, sneak around, spin), petljati (monkey, putter), krpljenje (darning, mending, patchwork), krpiti (darn, piece), kotlokrpa. (various references)

Spanish

tratar de reparar, tonante, remendar mal, remendar chapuceramente, remendar (doctor, doctor up, mend, patch, patch up, repair, revamp, vamp), remendón (cobbler), pícaro (crafty, imp, jester, naughty, picaroon, rascal, rascally, rogue, roguish, saucy, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scamp, scapegrace, street smart), manosear (finger, fumble, handle, lark about, lark around, paw, pull about, rumple, tamper, thumb, touch up), jugar en (bowl, lark about, lark around), gitano (gipsy, gypsy, romany), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, wreck), calderero hojalatero. (various references)

Swedish

kittelflickare, fuskare (botcher, cheater, crib, dabbler). (various references)

Thai

ช่างบัดกรี (solderer), งานบัดกรี. (various references)

Turkish

tenekeci (plumber, tinman, tinner, tinsmith, whitesmith), tamircilik, tamirci (mechanic, repairman, serviceman, wrecker), üstünkörü tamir etmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

ставитися несерйозно, лудильник (plater, tinsmith), працювати лудильником, поганий працівник (botch, bungler). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thợ hàn nồi thợ vụng việc làm dối. (various references)

Welsh

eurych (goldsmith). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tinker": tinkered, tinkerer, tinkerers, tinkering, tinkers. (additional references)

Words ending with "tinker": stinker. (additional references)

Words containing "tinker": stinkers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tinker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: finker, tankert, tanuer, tiker, tince, tineke, tiner, tinka, tinkar, Tinken, tinkery, tinkie, tinky, tinter, Tipner, Tonke, trinketry, Tuncer, twinker. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reknit.

-1 letter: inert, inker, inter, kiter, niter, nitre, reink, trike, trine.

-2 letters: keir, kent, kern, kier, kine, kirn, kite, knit, nite, rein, rent, rink, rite, tern, tier, tike, tine, tire, trek.

-3 letters: ern, ink, ire, irk, ken, kin, kir, kit, net, nit, rei, ret, rin, ten, tie, tin.

-4 letters: en, er, et, in, it, ne, re.

+1 letter: keratin, kernite, knitter, reknits, rethink, stinker, thinker, tinkers, tinkler, trinket.

+2 letters: ankerite, instroke, keratins, kernites, knitters, knitwear, knottier, retaking, rethinks, stinkers, stinkier, stricken, thinkers, tinkered, tinkerer, tinklers, tinklier, trekking, trinkets, turnpike, twinkler.

+3 letters: ankerites, crankiest, instrokes, interbank, interknit, interlink, interlock, interwork, knurliest, marketing, nitpicker, overthink, racketing, reknitted, restoking, retacking, rethinker, rocketing, snarkiest, streaking, streeking, thickener, thornlike, tinkerers, tinkering, trinketed, trinketer, trinketry, truckline, tuckering, turnpikes, twinklers.