tinker

A traveling mender of metal household utensils.

A member of any of various traditionally itinerant groups of people living especially in Scotland and Ireland; a traveler.

One who enjoys experimenting with and repairing machine parts.

A clumsy repairer or worker; a meddler.

To work as a tinker.

To make unskilled or experimental efforts at repair; fiddle.

To mend as a tinker.

To manipulate unskillfully or experimentally.

A playfully abusive epithet for a child.

To repair or put to rights, as a piece of metal-work.