tinker's
Itinerant repairman's possessive
Tinker's appears almost exclusively in the dismissive phrase tinker's damn (also tinker's dam), meaning something worthless: I don't give a tinker's damn what they think.
A tinker was an itinerant mender of pots and pans, and the phrase suggests either their reputation for casual profanity or a small clay dam used in soldering, discarded after one use.
damn
Mild expletive
fig · straw · rap · penny · button · bean · continental · whit · jot · iota
craft specialization
tinker'sblacksmith's
Of the forge worker
goldsmith's · silversmith's · armorer's · jeweler's · architect's
- Tinker BellMagical tiny flying companion
- tinker with
- tinker toysWooden building toy system
- tinker's damnWorthless amount or thing
- tinker tailorPair of traditional trades
- tinker, tailorItinerant mender and seamster