tinker

Definition

  • noun: a usually itinerant mender of household utensils
  • verb: to try to repair or improve something (such as a machine) by making small changes or adjustments to it
  • verb: to work in the manner of a tinker
  • often + 'with'
  • synonyms: skate, v, repair

Examples

  • The car wouldn't start, but my brother 'tinkered with' the engine a little and got it going again.

  • He obviously doesn't 'give a tinker's damn' [=doesn't care at all] about what happens.

  • If you ask me, his opinions aren't 'worth a tinker's damn'. [=aren't worth anything]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) me here. I gotta... I'm years old, I got nothing to show for it. You're young. You're so young. My papa... yeah? He didn't make master tinker till he was ,so... Four-hundred and ninety? Yeah. Tickle fight! Tickle fight! Tickle fight! Tickle fight! My favorite book of yours has (..)
    2003 Elf
  • (..) I made him my own personal apprentice. I've never been in this room before. Well, I think it's time you start Your tinker training. Santa's sleigh. You're gonna help me make it fly. I thought the magical reindeer made The sleighs fly. And where do the reindeer get (..)
    2003 Elf