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Tinman

//ˈtɪn.mæn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A maker of tinware; a tinsmith.

    "He seemed to feel quite at home at the tinman's, although they were hammering and tapping away there all day, but people said that the gudewife put a dish of porridge up in the garret for him every Thursday evening; and it's no wonder that they got on well and became rich when they had a brownie in the house."

  2. 2
    An uncaring or heartless man; a man lacking, or seeming to lack, feelings, emotions, or concern for others.
  3. 3
    A dealer in tinware.
  4. 4
    A master gene in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart.

    "Tinman belongs to a special class of genes. [...] But some genes make proteins that control other genes. Some act like master switches, triggering many different genes to work together to build a structure. Tinman is one such “master gene” for the fruit fly."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From tin + -man.

Etymology 2

In allusion to the character Tin Man from the Land of Oz, who lacked a heart.

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