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Knacker vs Tinker - What's the difference?

knacker | tinker |

As a verb knacker

is .

As a proper noun tinker is

for someone who mends pots and pans.

knacker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
    • (Mortimer)
  • One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; a clapper.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A harness maker.
  • One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
  • * 1933 , George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. XXII, Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition, pg. 117-118,
    • After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker
  • One who dismantles old ships, houses etc., and sells their components.
  • (Ireland, British, offensive) A member of the Travelling Community; a Gypsy.
  • (Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger or scobe.

    • Derived terms

    * knacker's yard

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To tire out, become exhausted.
    • Carrying that giant statue up those stairs knackered me out

    tinker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)

    Synonyms

    * (mischievous person) rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrel * (member of the travelling community) traveller

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • To work as a tinker.

    • See also

    * * tinker's damn

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