tinker

Meaning of tinker

noun
  1. An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
  2. A member of the Irish Traveller community. A gypsy.
  3. (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
  4. Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
  5. The act of repair or invention.
  6. A hand mortar.
  7. Any of various fish: the chub mackerel, the silverside, the skate, or a young mackerel about two years old.
  8. A bird, the razor-billed auk.
verb
  1. To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
  2. To work as a tinker.
  3. To tinker with; to tweak or attempt to fix.

Information about tinker

  • The plural form of tinker is: tinkers.
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Hyphenation of tinker

tin-ker

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • tinker is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

tinker synonyms

Meaning tinkerer:

tinkerer

Meaning putter:

putter, potter, monkey

Meaning fiddle:

fiddle

Meaning :

traveller, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrel

Anagrams of tinker

reknit

Words that rhyme with tinker

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