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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   tinker

   • IPA[ˈtiNGkər]

   美式

   • n.
     (especially in former times) a person who travels from place to place mending metal utensils as a way of making a living.；a person who makes minor mechanical repairs, especially on a variety of appliances and apparatuses, usually for a living.
   • v.
     attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect；attempt to mend (something) by tinkering.

   • noun: tinker, plural noun: tinkers

2. • 釋義
   • 相關詞
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. (especially in former times) a person who travels from place to place mending metal utensils as a way of making a living.
   • ▪ US a person who makes minor mechanical repairs, especially on a variety of appliances and apparatuses, usually for a living.
   • ▪ British offensive a Traveller, Romani, or other person living in an itinerant community.
   • 2. an act of attempting to repair something.

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect he spent hours tinkering with the car
   • ▪ attempt to mend (something) by tinkering.

   not give a tinker's damn

   • ph.
     not care at all

   Oxford American Dictionary

   not give a tinker's cuss

   • ph.
     not care at all

   Oxford Dictionary

   not give a tinker's curse (or cuss or damn)

   • ph.
     not care at all

   Oxford Dictionary

   片語

   • not give a tinker's damn
3. • 更多解釋

   tinker

   • IPA[ˈtɪŋkə]

   英式

   • n.
     (especially in former times) a person who makes a living by travelling from place to place ...
   • v.
     attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way: he spent hours tinkering with the car

   Oxford Dictionary