Tinker

"Tinker" in German

Kesselflicker

(itinerant tinsmith)

Kesselflickerin

(itinerant tinsmith)

basteln

(to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix or improve it)

frickeln

(to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix or improve it)

tüfteln

(to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix or improve it)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.