tinker
/ˈtɪŋkə/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈtɪŋkə/
tinker
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final r is pronounced in US English
tin - ker -> tinker
Myanmar meaning
(n) ခြေသလုံးအိမ်တိုင်သွားလာနေသူ။ အရပ်တကာလှည့်၍အိုးပေါက်ဖာသူ။ ကလိသည်။ ဆတ်ဆော့သည်။
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tinker /'tÇŋkǝ(r)/ n
(က) ခြေသလုံးအိမ်တိုင် သွားလာနေသူ။ a tinker woman.
(ခ) (esp formerly) အရပ်တကာလှည့်၍ အိုးပေါက် ဖာသူ။
v ~ (with sth) ကလိသည်။ ဆတ်ဆော့သည်။ He likes tinkering with old radios. ❍ Who's been tinkering (around) with the wiring? ❍ (fig ) Tinkering with the tax system won't solve the country's economic problems.
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fiddle, fidget, trifle, mess, toy, play, dabble, departer, doodle, evacuee, fiddle with, fix, fool around, interfere, jack of all trades, jack-of-all-trades, mend, mess around, mess with, migrant, migrator, monkey, monkey around, mover, muck about, niggle, pantologist, play with, proteus, puddle, put right, putter, repair, take apart, tamper, trifle with
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