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 --
2 a child who behaves badly: --
Don't be such a tinker.
[ as form of address ] You tinker, Nicky, you shouldn't have done that.
4 to make small changes in something, because you hope to improve or fix it: --
Drop the "tinker's cuss" stuff.
The other is to have so much easy money that one does not care a tinker's cuss whether it is good or bad, because the customer has to have it.
I speak as a consumer, but we are all consumers, and in these days no one seems to care two hoots or "a tinker's cuss" about the consumer.
They do not care a tinker's curse where their profits come from.
I do not care a tinker's hoot about the recipients of these letters.
The ward for fevers and foul cases contained but two beds and was separated from a tinker's shop by a lath and plaster partition.
I want to refute some of the allegations that these workers do not care a tinker's cuss about the company, the country or their industry.
I do not really care a tinker's cuss what the controls are.