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  • 61Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (film, 2011) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir La Taupe. La Taupe Données clés Titre original Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Réalisation Tomas Alfredson Scénario Brid …

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  • 62tinker's root — noun coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers • Syn: ↑feverroot, ↑horse gentian, ↑wild coffee, ↑Triostium perfoliatum • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant …

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  • 63tinker's damn — also tinker s dam noun Etymology: probably from the tinkers reputation for blasphemy Date: 1839 a minimum amount or degree (as of care) < didn t give a tinker s damn about poetry James Blish > …

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  • 64Tinker (cheval) — Gypsy Vanner Gypsy Vanner / Gypsy Cob …

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  • 65Tinker bell — Фея Динь (Тинкер Белл) в мультфильме Уолта Диснея «Питер Пэн» Динь Динь, или Динь (англ. Tinker Bell, Tink, Tinky)  фея, из сказки Дж. Барри Питер Пэн. Динь Динь является, пожалуй, самой известной из всех сказочных фей. Рост феи Динь Динь  13 см …

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  • 66tinker — v. (colloq.) (D; intr.) to tinker with * * * [ tɪŋkə] (colloq.) (D; intr.) to tinker with …

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  • 67tinker — [13] Etymologically, a tinker is probably a ‘worker in tin’. It could well be descended from an unrecorded Old English *tinecere, a plausible derivative of tin. There is an alternative possibility, however: it may have been derived from the now&#8230; …

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  • 68Tinker —    1) A worker with tin, often nomadic. The profession goes back many centuries in Europe. There are references to persons with the surname or trade of tinker in England from around 1175. In 1551 1552 the Act for Tinkers and Pedlars was passed in …

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  • 69tinker — noun 1》 an itinerant mender of pots, kettles, etc. 2》 Brit., chiefly derogatory a Gypsy or other person living in an itinerant community. 3》 Brit. informal a mischievous child. 4》 an act of tinkering with something. verb (tinker with) attempt in&#8230; …

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  • 70tinker — 1 noun (C) 1 someone who travels from place to place selling things or repairing metal pots, pans etc 2 BrE old fashioned a disobedient or annoying young child 3 not give a tinker s curse/cuss BrE spoken not give a tinker s damn AmE spoken to not …

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