单词 | tinkler |
释义 | tinklern.1 Chiefly Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (northern). Now historical. A person who makes a living by mending pots and other metal household utensils, esp. on an itinerant basis; a tinker. Also (chiefly derogatory): a Gypsy or other person living in an itinerant community; a disreputable person. Cf. tinker n.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun] > of pots, kettles, etc. tinkler?c1214 tinker1243 prig1567 kettler1604 kettleman1629 ting-tang1633 ?c1214 in G. W. S. Barrow Regesta Regum Scottorum (1971) II. 472 [Terra] que iacet inter terram Serlonis incisoris et terram Jacobi tinkler. 1268 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 139 [Yorkshire] Rog. le Tinkelere. 1338–9 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 32 Will. de Westerdale, tynkler. 1484 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 346 Christoferus Tynkeler, de eisdem villa et Comitatu, tynkeler. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiv v/2 A Tynker, sartor ærarius. A Tinkler, idem. 1572 R. Sempill Lament. Commounis Scotl. (single sheet) We Tinklaris, Tailȝeouris... We wait of nocht bot mekill cair and cummer. 1605 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 3 Joh. Jackson, tinkler. 1681 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1881) II. 228 Her mother brought a panne to a tinkler's house. ?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 204 My bonie lass I work in brass, A Tinkler is my station. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 248 This fellow had been originally a tinkler or caird, many of whom stroll about these districts. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (at cited word) The celebrated Wull Allen was for many years the king of the tinklers in the North. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. iii. 84 She looks such a tinkler. 1911 19th Cent. & After Sept. 546 These wandering cairds or ‘tinklers’ had four separate languages at their command. 2006 L. C. Higgs Grace in Thine Eyes xxvi. 125 Word first came on Saturday from a family of Gypsy tinklers making their way round the island. Compounds As a modifier, esp. with the senses ‘that is a tinkler’, as in tinkler fellow, tinkler-gypsy, tinkler laddie, etc.; ‘of, belonging to, or characteristic of a tinkler’, as in tinkler tongue, etc. ΚΠ 1618 Edinb. Test. L. f. 62v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Tynklar Fyve hankis tinkler wyre at xxvj s. viij d. the hank. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 21 Tho Silver Plate, Sharps Guard did plunder, With Horse and Cloaths, I think no wonder, For a pack of Tinkler Fellows, Will steal tho they should get the Gallows. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iii, in Poems 10 Ev'n wi' a Tinkler-gipsey's messan. 1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. ii.16 Nae wonder ye ne'er got a man, ye cankery runt, wi' your red neb and your tinkler tongue. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ix. 157 And the same bluid's in Katrine, wha suld hae been a laddie, and a tinkler laddie, for it's no her that will mind her seam or watch the pot when the sun's shinin'. 1932 W. D. Cocker Poems 57 O queer stravaigin' tinkler men, Ye ken the things we dinna ken;..Hoo to lie lown oot-bye at nicht. 1995 N. Philip Penguin Bk. Sc. Folk Tales p. xxi Recently our appreciation of Lowland storytelling has been transformed..by the revelation of a vigorous living narrative tradition among Scottish travellers, or ‘tinkler-gypsies’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tinklern.2 1. Something which makes a tinkling sound, esp. a small bell (sometimes as an affectionate or colloquial name), or an ornament (often one of a number of such ornaments) suspended in such a way as to make a tinkling sound when moved.Occasionally (and in earliest use): a base coin. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > [noun] > handbell or small bell handbellOE cocklebell1378 skellat1398 crier1467 campanel1653 skellach1653 ting-tang1681 tinkler1767 grelot1854 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > tinkle or ting > tinkler tinkler1767 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > small bell bellc1175 cocklebell1378 crier1467 tantony1567 jingle1615 campanel1653 ting-tang1681 tinkler1767 crotal1790 grelot1854 pellet bell1907 1599 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 133 Ane great part of the almus gevin to the Pure is fals cunȝie, callit Tinklaris. 1767 A. Seward Let. Sept. in Poet. Wks. (1810) I. p. cxcv A spinnet.., the little tinkler is a wretched substitute for my dear harpsichord. 1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Ode upon Ode (ed. 5) 43 Thus when the Oxford Bell, baptiz'd Great Tom, Shakes all the City with his iron Tongue, The little tinklers might as well be dumb. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxv. 85 ‘Hark!’ cried the Dodger at this moment, ‘I heard the tinkler.’ 1900 Amer. Anthropologist 2 442 Many objects of shell, as tinklers, ornaments, rings, and bracelets. 1991 Southwest Winter 57/1 (caption) Buckskin dolls..come with a beaded necklace and moccasins, feathers, staff, and metal tinklers that keep evil spirits away. 2007 Sierra Star (Oakhurst, Calif.) (Nexis) 31 Aug. (National ed.) There is no such thing as a bad wind chime..There are clinkers, clangers, clunkers, bangers and tinklers, but they are all good chimes. 2. A person who tinkles (in various senses).In quot. 1731: a mediocre poet; a rhymester. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > minor poet or poetaster rhymera1500 versifier1531 rhythmer1577 rhymester1593 poetizer1599 jingler1600 penny poet1600 poetaster1601 verser?1611 versemonger1634 poetitoa1637 foot poet1641 verseman1652 sonneteer1667 tinkler1689 verse-wright1729 rhymist1763 bardling1813 coupleteer1818 verse-smith1820 poetling1830 versicler1860 bardlet1867 poeticule1872 poetast1892 1689 G. Fox Jrnl. (1694) 597 What Good have all the Tinklers done, with their Cymbals and sounding Brass? They always bred Confusion, and never did Good in any Age. 1731 A. Hill Advice to Poets xxii But, ah! far short th' unsolid Tinklers rise; Nor soar, but flutter, in the Muse's Skies. 2013 Daily Star (Nexis) 14 Dec. (National ed.) The tinkler, 23, told Absolute Radio's Pete Donaldson: ‘My flat is like a piano orphanage, filled with different pianos’. 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