tinkerlyadj.
/ˈtɪŋkəli/, U.S. /ˈtɪŋkərli/ depreciative. Now rare.
Having the character of a tinker or of a tinker's work; clumsy, bungling, unskilful; of poor quality; mean, low, disreputable.With quot. 1681, cf. a tinker mends one hole and makes two at tinker n.1 Phrases 1.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective]
theowlikec1175
wickc1175
wretcha1200
lechera1300
vilea1300
feeblea1325
brothely1330
caitiffa1400
roinousa1425
basec1450
harlotry1486
filthy1533
brockish1546
vild1568
tinkerly?1576
scabbed?1577
miscreant1593
unnoble1593
slavish1597
rascally1600
roguish1601
sordidous1602
facinoriousa1616
scullion1658
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
scoundrel1681
scabby1712
verminating1720
small1824
low-down1865
verminiferous1895
ragtime1917
ribby1936
raunchy1937
scungy1966
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible
unworthc893
unwrastc893
littleOE
narrow-hearteda1200
wretcha1200
unworthya1240
wretchedc1250
un-i-wrastc1275
bad1276
lechera1300
feeblea1325
despisablea1340
villain1340
contemptiblec1384
lousyc1386
caitiff1393
brothelyc1400
roinousa1425
poor1425
sevenpennyc1475
nasty1477
peakish1519
filthy1533
despectuous1541
beggary1542
scald1542
shitten?1545
disdainfula1547
contemptuous1549
despicable1553
skit-brained?1553
contemniblea1555
vile1560
sluttish1561
queer1567
scornful1570
scallardc1575
tinkerly?1576
worthless1576
beggarly?1577
paltry1578
halfpenny1579
dog bolt1580
pitiful1582
sneaking1582
triobolar1585
wormisha1586
baddy1586
dudgeon1592
measled1596
packstaff1598
roguey1598
roguish1601
contemptful1608
grovelling1608
lightly1608
disdainable1611
purulent1611
snotty-nose1622
vilipendious1630
cittern-headed1638
wormy1640
pissabed1643
triobolary1644
disparageable1648
blue-bellied1652
unestimable1656
scullion1658
piteous1667
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
snotty1681
snotty-nosed1682
mucky1683
bollocky1694
scoundrel1700
scaldeda1704
sneaking1703
ficulnean1716
unsolid1731
pitiable1753
scrubby1754
inimitable1798
scrubbish1798
worm-likea1807
small1824
lowlife1827
ketty1828
skunkish1831
yellow-bellied1833
scaly1843
cockroachya1845
wutless1853
nigger1859
trashy1862
low-down1872
cruddy1877
shitty1879
tinhorn1886
blithering1889
motherfucking1890
snidey1890
pilgarlicky1894
shitass1895
shoddy1918
yah boo1921
bitching1929
shit-faced1932
turdish1936
fricking1937
jerk-off1937
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
snot-nosed1941
jerky1944
mother-loving1948
scroungy1948
fecking1952
pissant1952
shit-kicking1953
shit-eating1956
bumboclaat1957
rassclaat1957
shit-headed1959
farkakte1960
shithouse1966
daggy1967
dipshit1968
scuzzy1969
bloodclaat1971
bitch ass1972
wanky1972
streelish1974
twatty1975
twattish1976
dweeby1988
douchey1991
wank1991
cockish1996
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > base or vile
low?c1225
lechera1300
vilea1300
feeblea1325
unfreec1330
villain1340
wrackc1375
villains1390
noughty1443
slovenly?1518
peasant1550
sluttish1561
vild1567
knaifatic1568
scallardc1575
base1576
tinkerly?1576
beggarly?1577
cullion-like1591
brokerly1592
broking1592
ignoble1592
cullionly1608
disnoble1609
unsolid1731
lowly1740
blackguard1751
blackguardly1779
menial1837
low-flung1841
caddish1868
basilar1884
bounding1904
bounderish1928
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > putting together clumsily > clumsily put together
cloutedc1380
bodged1519
botched1537
tinkerly?1576
tinker-like1596
cobbled1798
botchy1843
bodgie1905
haywire1905
bodgied1974
bodgied-up1988
?1576 Common Condicions sig. B This tinkerly trade wee geue it the bagge.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 183 Shewe me any halfe page without piperly phrases, and tinkerly composition.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Eph. iv. 25) A base tinkerly sin, as Plutarch calleth it, shamefull and hatefull.
1681 E. Hickeringill Horrid Sin Man-catching Postscr. i. 37 The wary Hollanders..suffer no Tinkerly Pleadings of mending one hole, and making too.
1721 Philos. Trans. Abrig'd 1700–20 (Royal Soc.) 2 iv. iii. 231 One Day, rummaging all their tinkerly Treasure, that they had left behind them in Dublin when they were routed, by accident I met with one Bag of one hundred and fifty of those Pieces.
1892 Belfast News-let. 20 Sept. 4/7 Mr. Gladstone..treated them [sc. the Irish] in a tinkerly fashion, breaking and mending them.
1993 Moscow News (Nexis) 17 Sept. In the noisy and tinkerly carnival, abounding in popular songs, shouts, falls and other fuss.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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