0 to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it:
1 especially in the past, a person who travelled from place to place, repairing pans or other metal containers
[ as form of address ] You tinker, Nicky, you shouldn't have done that.
Don't be such a tinker.
4 to make small changes in something, because you hope to improve or fix it:
I am not concerned one tinker's toss of a button whether a shipowner makes money or loses it.
In the case of single men everybody seems inclined not to care a tinker's curse what happens to him simply because he is single.
At all events, no one will care a "tinker's cuss" about that.
The rest do not matter a tinker's cuss.
You have not cared a tinker's curse about the pit heaps in colliery villages.
Is it because the latter are unorganised and are of the "tinker's cuss" variety?
They feel it on the raw so much that they do not care a tinker's curse whether they produce coal or not.
I do not really care a tinker's cuss what the controls are.
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