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   tinker

   /ˈtɪŋkə/

   noun

   • 1. (especially in former times) a person who makes a living by travelling from place to place mending pans and other metal utensils.
   • ▪ a Traveller, Romani, or other person living in an itinerant community. offensive British
   • 2. a mischievous child: informal British "little tinkers, we were"
   • 3. an act of attempting to repair something.

   verb

   • 1. attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way: "he spent hours tinkering with the car"

   Word Origin Middle English (first recorded in Anglo-Latin as a surname): of unknown origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. tinkerer noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

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