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: Let me have a tinker at that motor.
5. Scot., Irish English.
• a Romani living in the British Isles; a Traveler.
• any itinerant worker.
• a wanderer.
• a beggar.
6. chub mackerel.

7. to busy oneself with a thing without useful results: Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.
8. to work unskillfully or clumsily at anything.
9. to do the work of a tinker.

10. to mend as a tinker.
11. to repair in an unskillful, clumsy, or makeshift way.

1. (esp formerly) a travelling mender of pots and pans
2. a clumsy worker
3. the act of tinkering
4. Scot and Irish another name for Gypsy
5. a mischievous child
6. any of several small mackerels that occur off the North American coast of the Atlantic

7. to play, fiddle, or meddle (with machinery, etc), esp while undertaking repairs
8. to mend (pots and pans) as a tinker

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