tinker's Usage Examples:

such stinkers as for example what with a visit.

On top of that i 've had a stinker of a cold.

To date, however, Kim has only tinkered with the economic system.

Also in the curious tinker's " Thary " spoken still on the English roads and lanes, we find merely an often inaccurately inverted Irish Gaelic.

"You little stinker," she said with a grin.

From, probably, the dawn of literature, fans of a story have tinkered with it, changing characters, endings, plot points and resolutions.

When he was three years old he was taken on a visit to his uncle at Strathendry, and when playing alone was carried off by a party of "tinkers.

The wheat farmers say that it does not pay to take undue care of old machinery, that more money is lost in repairing and tinkering an old machine than would pay for a new one.

Such stinkers as for example what with a visit.

Have you tinkered away for years in your garden shed creating the product which will change the world?He has merely tinkered with programs written by others.

There are a few real stinkers on the album.

Synonyms:

putter, puddle, mess around, muck around, potter, work, monkey around, monkey, muck about,

Antonyms:

unbelt, unbar, unbutton, dislodge, idle,