Tinkering

To mess around with something and you don't really have a clue what your doing.

"Make sure Ed isn't tinkering with my car, I need that thing for work."

"Don't even tinker with my vacuum, I'll send it back to the shop."

by Kitsme October 26, 2011

tinkers

Tinkers is a term for a group of Irish Travellers who worked with tin and mended pots and pans from door to door in rural Ireland before urbanisation in the 1960's. This is a perjoritive term these days and is used to insult Irish Travellers, as gyppo is to insult Romani people (different ethnic nomads in Britain & Ireland).

Not all Irish Travellers were tinkers (from tinsmithing or tinsmith) as there were horse dealers, market traders etc.

Irish Travellers have their own distinct culture, traditions, way of life and language and are indigenious to Ireland and are said to be here in Ireland before the Celts arrived in Ireland 500 yrs BC.

"irish travellers are all tinkers"

"No, its a term, often negative"

by tinker-boy August 16, 2006

Tinker

noun--A non-professional person skilled at mechanical or electrical inventions and/or repairs.

verb--To engage in minor repairs or inventing.

John's an excellent tinker; he got my lawn-mower running in ten minutes.

John's always tinkering. His latest widget gets my mail and throws away the ads.

by Anonymus Bosch September 30, 2005

Tinkered

The state of intoxication between being buzzed and drunk.

Yoooo buddy I just had 4 beers and I'm tinkered as FUCKKK.

by Nikkidrex May 28, 2017

tinkers

Widely known as Irish gypsies residing in Ireland and also in the UK. My Irish nan used to tell my mum that if she was naughty one evening that she would "leave her outside for the tinkers", as it was said that they stole children.

Another meaning of tinkers is esctasy pills.

"got any tinkers?" or "tinkers, tinkers, anyone wanna buy any tinkers?" as some drug dealers in nightclubs in the South East of England would say.

by maya2007 May 26, 2007

Tinker

Although usually meaning Irish travellers can also be used to refer to someone dirty or unhygenic in appearence or smell...

Me: Oh, whats that smell?
Friend: Its that tinker over there!
Me: What a dirty smelly tinker!

by boo boop your nose February 28, 2009

Tinker

A very loose term that is interpreted in your own way, but most commonly used to describe a person who is cheeky or funny.

oh your such a tinker

by Tinkerterm March 22, 2013