tinkerer

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He is a tinkerer, a bricoleur, Dionysian rather than Apollonian.

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  1. a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts
  2. an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend

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  • Really evolution works more like a tinkerer than an engineer. —  Robert Full on engineering and evolution
  • The adolescent bio-tinkerer who'd loosed it—probably to impress his friends—felt it wasn't getting enough attention, so he hacked it into the safe zone. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
  • MANISTIQUE - A self-described "tinkerer" John Chandler, second-year superintendent of Manistique Area Schools, has been supporting changes and improvements in the school since his first day on the job. —  Daily Press
  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa 's work has given American audiences a distorted impression of him as a genre tinkerer, but the atmospheric horror duo of —  GreenCine Daily
  • The Yankee tinkerer is no different in outlook than the Southern Frontiersman, save that one had to fight climate and government to keep kith and kin alive while the other had to fight hostile natives, government, and brew up whisky while keeping kith and kin alive. —  The Jacksonian Party
 

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