<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.</li><li>an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler.</li><li>a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack-of-all-trades.</li><li>an act or instance of tinkering: Let me have a tinker at that motor.</li><li>Scot., Irish English: a Romani living in the British Isles; a Traveler.</li><li>any itinerant worker.</li><li>a wanderer.</li><li>a beggar.</li><li>chub mackerel.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to busy oneself with a thing without useful results: Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.</li><li>to work unskillfully or clumsily at anything.</li><li>to do the work of a tinker.</li><li>(used with object) to mend as a tinker.</li><li>to repair in an unskillful, clumsy, or makeshift way.</li></ul>