tinker

• n.鋳掛屋；鋳掛屋；溶接屋；鯖屋
• vi.鍋はんだになる；溶接する；不器用に何かをする
• vt. 修繕する；手荒くする
• n.（ティンカー）人の名前；（英）Tinker

擬音語、-er,人からの可能性。比喩的用法。

tinker

tinker: [13] Etymologically, a tinker is probably a ‘worker in tin’. It could well be descended from an unrecorded Old English *tinecere, a plausible derivative of tin. There is an alternative possibility, however: it may have been derived from the now obsolete verb tink ‘tinkle’ (which, like tinkle [14] itself, was of imitative origin), in allusion to the metallic sounds made by tinkers repairing pots (northern and Scottish dialects had the word tinkler for ‘tinker’).

tinker (n.)

"mender of kettles, pots, pans, etc.," late 14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), of uncertain origin. Some connect the word with the sound made by light hammering on metal. Tinker's damn "something slight and worthless" is from 1824, probably preserving tinkers' reputation for free and casual use of profanity; the plain and simple etymology is not good enough for some writers, and since 1877 an ingeniously elaborate but baseless derivation has been circulated claiming the second word is really dam.

tinker (v.)

1590s, "to work as a tinker," from tinker (n.). Meaning "work imperfectly, keep busy in a useless way," is first found 1650s. Related: Tinkered; tinkering.

1. Don 't tinker with the TV.

テレビをいじるな.

2.He likes to tinker with radios.

彼はラジオをいじるのが大好きだ。

3.Please don 't tinker with my car engine.

私の車のエンジンを乱さないでください。

4.It isn 't profane any more to say tinker 's dam.

が「 tinker 'sdam」と言うのは、もはや冒涜とみなすべきではない。

5.It is not enough to tinker at the edges ; our objective must be to reconstruct the entire system.

外縁で小さな補修をするだけでは足りず、システム全体を再構築することを目標としています。