different between tinker vs pinker

English

Etymology

From Middle English tinkere, perhaps from Old English *tincere, from tin (“tin”) + Old English *cere (as in b?ocere (“beekeeper”)), from Proto-Germanic *kazjaz (“vessel-maker”), from Proto-Germanic *kaz? (“vessel; vat; tub”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??k?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??k?/
• Hyphenation: tin?ker
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Noun

tinker (plural tinkers)

1. An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
2. (dated, chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community. A gypsy.
3. (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
4. Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
5. The act of repair or invention. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. (military, obsolete) A hand mortar.
7. Any of various fish: the chub mackerel, the silverside, the skate, or a young mackerel about two years old.
8. A bird, the razor-billed auk.

Synonyms

• (mischievous person): rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrel
• (member of the travelling community): traveller

Derived terms

• if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Translations

Verb

tinker (third-person singular simple present tinkers, present participle tinkering, simple past and past participle tinkered)

1. (intransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
2. (intransitive) To work as a tinker.
3. (transitive) To tinker with; to tweak or attempt to fix.
   • 1894, Thomas Hardy, A Few Crusted Characters

     the broken bureau-lock and tinkered window-pane

Translations

See also

• tinker, tailor
• tinker's damn

Further reading

• tinker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Kinter, reknit

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Adjective

pinker

1. comparative form of pink: more pink

Noun

pinker (plural pinkers)

1. One who pinks (in various senses).
   • 2000, Leigh David Benin, The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry (page 92)

     The job paid $65 a week. However, when she arrived for work, the employer informed her that she would also be required to do some pinking, and that she would be paid at the rate for pinkers, which was only $50 a week.

See also

• pinkers (pinking shears)

Anagrams

• Perkin, Pernik, perkin

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

pinker

1. comparative degree of pink

Adjective

pinker

1. inflection of pink:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural