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tinker
noun- a member of the travelling community IRELAND
Conventionally “an (itinerant) mender of pots, pans, kettles etc.”, but now more generally applied. - You could do better than hanging around with that one. She’s a pure-bred tinker. I hear you can get the smell of the camp off her still. — Eamonn Sweeney, Waiting for the Healer, p. 257, 1997
- — A Dictionary of Hiberno-English, p. 272, 1999
- a child, especially a mischievous child NEW ZEALAND
Remembered in use in New Zealand in 1904 and in Australia in 1910. - Up to high jinks you’ll be with this little tinker. — Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home, p. 133, 1996
- a piece of scrap from wreckage CANADA
- It was at Northeast Point that tinkers and pieces of metal from various ships lay amongst the rocks or had been washed up over the high banks and blown into the woods. — Walter Hitchens, Island Trek, p. 55, 1983
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