Tinker vs Kinker - What's the difference?
tinker | kinker |
an itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of tin
(dated, chiefly, British, and, Irish, offensive) A member of the travelling community. A gypsy.
A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
Someone who repairs, or attempts repair on anything mechanical (tinkers) or invents.
The act of repair or invention.
(military, obsolete) A small mortar on the end of a staff.
Any of various fish: the chub mackerel, the silverside, the skate, or a young mackerel about two years old.
A bird, the razor-billed auk.
(Webster 1913)
To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Robert M. Pringle
, title=How to Be Manipulative
, volume=100, issue=1, page=31
, magazine=
To work as a tinker.
A performer in a circus.
* 2006 , Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants , Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, pages 36-37:
As nouns the difference between tinker and kinker
is that tinker is an itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of tin while kinker is a performer in a circus.As a verb tinker
is to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.As a proper noun Tinker
is {{surname|northern English|from=occupations}} for someone who mends pots and pans.tinker
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (mischievous person) rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrel * (member of the travelling community) travellerVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
See also
* * tinker's damnAnagrams
*kinker
English
Noun
(en noun)- "So, what's the vernacular then?" I say finally. ¶ "They're called kinkers," says Camel..."don't you go calling them 'kinkers' to their faces, neither." ¶ "What do I call them?" ¶ "Performers...There's them and there's us, and you're us," says Camel.