Reverse Dictionary: TINKER

ADJECTIVES
► TINCLARIAN like a tinker; composed of tinkers → 1810 Sc. obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CAIRD ► KAIRD a travelling tinker; a gypsy, a tramp, a sturdy beggar → 1663 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FAW a gypsy, a beggar, a vagrant; an itinerant tinker → 1756
► GABERLOONY a licensed or professional beggar; in later use: a travelling tinker, a beggar in general → 1508 Sc.
► GABERLUNYIE-MAN a ‘blue-gown,’ or beggar who wears the king’s badge; a beggar with a wallet; an itinerant mechanic or tinker, who carries in his bag the implements of his trade→ 1825 Sc.
► GABERLUNZIE a licensed or professional beggar; in later use: a travelling tinker, a beggar in general → 1508 Sc.
► MINK a tinker; a vagrant → 1963 Sc.
► MUGGER an itinerant dealer or tinker specializing in earthenware → 1743 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PACKLER a peddler who deals in earthenware; a travelling handyman or tinker → 1832 Sc.
► POTTY a tinker → 1909 lower classes’ usage (Bk.)
► PRIG a disreputable person; a tinker → 1567 cant obs.
► RANDY-BEGGAR a beggar who extorts alms by threatening; a tinker → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TINK a tinker; a disreputable vagabond → 1857 Sc.
► TINKEARD a tinker → 1865 Eng. dial. obs.
► TINKER a craftsman (usually itinerant) who mends pots, kettles, and other metal household utensils → c1265
► TINKLER a tinker; a worker in metal; in Scotland, north of England, and Ireland, a gypsy or other itinerant mender of pots, pans, and metal-work → c1175 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.

VERBS
► DODDLE to fiddle around, to tinker; to stagger and reel → 1975 Amer. dial.
► MONK to tinker, trifle, or fool around; to tamper or interfere with surreptitiously → 1889-90 Amer. sl.
► QUAVER to potter about, to tinker → 1979 UK sl.
► TINK to mend pots and pans, as a tinker → a1400
► TINKER to work as a tinker; to mend metal utensils, esp. in a clumsy, bungling, or imperfect way → 1592