tinker's dam

Questions about tinker's dam

What does tinker's dam mean?

tinker's dam means "something of little value".

What is another word for tinker's dam?

Close synonyms include damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tinker's dam a common word?

tinker's dam is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.