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tinkerer

n. 1 agent noun of tinker; one who tinkers with things. 2 A meddler.

WordNet
tinkerer

  1. n. an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend [syn: fiddler]

  2. a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts [syn: tinker]

  3. a traveling repairman who mends broken things (such as metal household utensils) [syn: mender, tinker]

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Tinkerer

The Tinkerer is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in comic books set in Marvel Comics. The character has an almost superhuman gift of genius in engineering, able to invent sophisticated gadgets from nothing more than spare parts left over from ordinary household appliances.

Usage examples of "tinkerer".

Since Elser was a skilled cabinetmaker and electrician and a tinkerer, they suggested that he was the man to do the job.

It looks no more like an atom bomb than I look like Stalin, but it represents-if it were plutonium-what we atom tinkerers call a 'subcritical mass.