tinker /tingˈkər/

1. An itinerant mender of kettles, pans, etc
2. A botcher or bungler
3. A rascal (informal)
4. A member of a group of Travelling People, a Gypsy (esp Scot and Irish; derogatory)
5. A slight, temporary or unskilful patching-up

To repair, esp ineffectually

1. To do a tinker's work
2. (often with with) to potter, fiddle, meddle, in trivial, ineffectual ways

tinkˈerer noun

tinkˈering noun

not give a tinker's curse or damn (slang)

Not to care in the slightest

• hard ons
• hard-ons
• hard on the heels of
• hard pad
• hard palate
• hard palates
• hard-pan
• hard-pans
• hardparts
• hard-paste
• hard-pressed
• hard-pushed
• hard put to it
• hard radiation
• hard-riding
• hard right
• hard rock
• hard-rock geology
• hard roe
• hard rubber
• hard rubbers
• hard-ruled
• hard-run
• hards
• hard sauce