Synonyms for tinker
ˈtɪŋ kərtin·ker

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1. tinkernoun

   to work as a tinker

   Synonyms:
   traveller

2. tinkernoun

   A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.

   Synonyms:
   scamp, rascal, scoundrel, rapscallion, rogue

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1. tinker, tinkerernoun

   a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts

   Synonyms:
   chub mackerel, tinkerer, fiddler

2. tinkernoun

   formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living

   Synonyms:
   chub mackerel, tinkerer

3. chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicusverb

   small mackerel found nearly worldwide

   Synonyms:
   chub mackerel, tinkerer

4. putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck aroundverb

   do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

   "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

   Synonyms:
   fiddle, muck around, monkey, muck about, monkey around, tamper, putter, potter around, mess around, putter around, potter

5. tinkerverb

   work as a tinker or tinkerer

   Synonyms:
   fiddle, muck around, monkey, muck about, monkey around, putter, mess around, potter

6. tinker, fiddleverb

   try to fix or mend

   "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend"

   Synonyms:
   play, fiddle, shirk, muck around, goldbrick, monkey, shrink from, muck about, monkey around, putter, toy, mess around, diddle, potter, tamper

Matched Categories

1. • Experimenter
   • Itinerant
   • Repair
   • Work

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1. tinkernoun

   Synonyms:
   mender (of old pans, kettles, &c.)

2. tinkerverb

   Synonyms:
   mend (as old pans, kettles, &c.), cobble, patch up

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1. Steven Rosenthal:

   At the end of the day, I think they'd step back from the precipice and just tinker around with the current system, but you never know. We are living in strange times.

2. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu:

   There is a need to look at the PIB as it was submitted to the sixth assembly and try and tinker with that a bit, there are all kinds of issues ... one of those is whether we need to yank out the fiscal terms and develop them into a different law relying on existing fiscal laws and amend those.

3. Amesh Adalja:

   It's a very elegant solution, and that's why they could go to vaccine trials so quickly, because all they need is a sequence of the virus, they don't have to tinker with the virus to make a vaccine candidate. They can just make a vaccine candidate with genetic sequence of the virus.

4. Leland Stowe:

   An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.

5. James Scott:

   We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy’s protecting the IoT microcosms of America’s health sector organizations.