Synonyms for tinker
- verb
- noun
Most common
mess around muck around muck about hack fudge patch up fiddle with
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Mess around
mess around, monkey around informal, monkey, muck around, potter, muck about, putter
2. Fiddle — to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled…
Other
Noun
1. Rogue — A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster
Definitions
- v. 1
To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
- v. 2
To work as a tinker.
- n. 1
A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
Related words
- Word family
- tinkerer
- Phrases
- tinker's damn tinker's dam tinker's cuss tinker's toot tinker's fart tinker's curse
Example sentences
- hack Gustavo managed to hack into the company’s system.
- fudge "Get out!" "What the fudge! Are you kidding me?"
By length
- 4 letters
- hack1, vamp1
- 5 letters
- rogue1, fudge1, scamp, pavee
- 6 letters
- repair2, monkey2, potter2, fiddle2, rascal2, putter2, cobble2
- 8 letters
- traveler3
- 9 letters
- traveller3, scoundrel2
- 11 letters
- rapscallion
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (repair2 = 2 syllables).