tinker
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Is tinker a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (dated, chiefly British and Ireland, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups; a gypsy.Synonyms: travellerBritishIrelanddatedoffensive
2. (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.Synonyms: rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrelusually
3. (informal) An act of repair or invention.Examples: "I'll have a tinker and see what I can do."informal
4. (military, obsolete) A hand mortar.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To work as a tinker.intransitive
2. (ambitransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.Examples: "the broken bureau-lock and tinkered window-pane"; "As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds."; "And because he wants to show that he is a dominant male, he tinkered the engine of his motorbike to make it even noisier."Synonyms: fudge, fiddle, hackambitransitive
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Definition source: Wiktionary