n. 25B6; verb a workman was tinkering with the engine : FIDDLE WITH, adjust, try to mend, play about with; tamper with, interfere with, mess about with, meddle with; informal rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic; Brit. informal muck about with.
TINKER
Meaning of TINKER in English
Concise Oxford thesaurus English vocabulary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка тезаурус. 2012