tinker

tinker with the old clock

Don’t tinker with the TV.

have an hour's tinker at the radio set

property that is not worth a tinker's damn.

Don't tinker with my television.

She spent the afernoon tinkering about in the garden shed.

He’s outside tinkering around with his bike.

he spent hours tinkering with the car.

Please don't tinker with my car engine.

tinkered with the engine, hoping to discover the trouble; tinkering with the economy by trying various fiscal policies.

these measures are merely tinkering at the edges of a wider issue.

He does not care a tinker's damn about it.

Give my husband an old motorbike to tinker with and he's as happy as the day is long.

They haven’t made any real changes to the system — they’ve just been tinkering around a bit.

Even when she is not being overtly mendacious,she tinkers with the truth.

Finding good code to read used to be hard, because there were few large programs available in source for fledgeling hackers to read and tinker with.

Europe has plenty of marginalised social groups, often with traditions of nomadism and their own languages: Irish Tinkers, for example, who speak Shelta.