tinker

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  1. noun A traveling mender of metal household utensils.
  2. noun Chiefly British A member of any of various traditionally itinerant groups of people living especially in Scotland and Ireland; a traveler.
  3. noun One who enjoys experimenting with and repairing machine parts.
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  1. Middle English tinkere.

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  1. from Middle English tinkere, literally one who makes a tinking sound (namely in mending metallic vessels); from tink + -er. Cf. equivalent tinkler and tinkard; cf. also Welsh tincerrd, a tinker.
  2. from tinker, n.
 

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