a. ? Obs. [f. TINKER sb. + -LY1.] Having the character of a tinker or of tinker’s work; clumsy, bungling, unskilful; of poor quality; mean, low, disreputable. (Depreciative.)

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1586.  W. Webbe, Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 31. I meane this tynkerly verse which we call ryme.

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1592.  Lyly, Midas, IV. i. Thou art Pan and all, all Pan and tinkerly.

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1593.  G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., 183. Shewe me any halfe page without piperly phrases, and tinkerly composition.

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1647.  Trapp, Comm. Eph. iv. 25. A base tinkerly sin, as Plutarch calleth it, shamefull and hatefull.

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1681.  Hickeringill, Sin Man-Catching, Postscr. The wary Hollanders … suffer no Tinkerly Pleading, of mending one hole, and making too.

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