Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Agent noun of tinker; one who tinkers with things.
- n. A meddler.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend
- n. a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts
Examples
“The tinkerer is personified in the therapist and the being who is the World is represented by George Orr (he in fact holds the power of creation in his hands, but is ironically in power of Haber himself).”
“Jack Carter, the Houston big-game hunter and bullet tinkerer, is hunting in a better world now, but his Trophy Bonded bullets are alive and well and being manufactured by Federal and sold to handloaders through Speer Bullets.”
“On a recent weekend, Sari Harris - a self-described "tinkerer" - spent close to $1,000 to make her own bamboo bike.”
“Evolution has been famously described as a tinkerer, building new structures out of old parts.”
David Sloan Wilson: Atheism as a Stealth Religion IV: The Transformation of the Obvious
“Better still, he realizes it needs to go a lot further to get this technology past the 'tinkerer' phase which it is in now.”
“What really gets me about Ancelotti is that he's not a "tinkerer" in any sense.”
“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.”
“(R) After home invaders kill his wife and daughter, "tinkerer" Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) exacts revenge on Philadelphia's criminal justice system, particularly district attorney Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), who cut a deal to give a sleazy killer a light sentence.”
“When he started the normal claim that all those proteins can't just be created in evolution, I rebutted with the 'tinkerer' angle, and he admitted he'd not heard that and walked away.”
“He was a "tinkerer" who loved electronics and mechanics and could take anything apart.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tinkerer’.
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-erer
words that finish with a double er: an usual list of doers
ricerer, ponderer, echoerer, eerierer, elderer, eyelinerer, alterer, blusterer, chatterer, offerer, answerer, bickerer and 100 more...
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coastwise's list
scienstitious, coastwise, dungeons and drei..., cognieval, singularity, introdus, polis, tinkerer, sapience, homoiconic, typo of the tongue, neocognitron and 8 more...
Tweets
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bilby Bit of discussion a while back on tinker, coastwise. Jul 22, 2008
plethora WeirdNET cannot be trusted. Jul 22, 2008
coastwise who says a tinkerer is unskilled? Jul 22, 2008