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Definitions for Tinkering

[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 gypsy. 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.
[12] (esp formerly) a travelling mender of pots and pans
[13] a clumsy worker
[14] the act of tinkering
[15] Scot and Irish another name for Gypsy
[16] British informal a mischievous child
[17] any of several small mackerels that occur off the North American coast of the Atlantic
[18] (intr foll by with ) to play, fiddle, or meddle (with machinery, etc), esp while undertaking repairs
[19] to mend (pots and pans) as a tinker

Words related to Tinkering

tinkermess, dabble, repair, play, toy, monkey, doodle, putter, niggle, puddle, fix

Words nearby Tinkering

tinkertingley, tingly, tinhorn, tinia, tinian, tinker, tinker with, tinker's cuss, tinker's dam, tinker's damn, tinker's weed

Origin of Tinkering

1225–75; Middle English tinkere (noun), syncopated variant of tinekere worker in tin

Other words from Tinkering

tin·ker·er , noun
un·tin·kered , adjective

Word origin for Tinkering

C13 tinkere, perhaps from tink tinkle, of imitative origin

Synonyms for Tinkering

dabble, mess, doodle, fix, monkey, niggle, play, puddle, putter, repair, toy, mess with, muck about, play with, take apart, trifle with