What is a Tinkers Winnet?

Question

I've heard this many many times...just exactly what is it?

Answer 1

I'm not sure but if he asks you to rub it, decline politely.

Answer 2

are you sure it isn't this:
Why is a tinker's dam (or is it damn?) worthless? And what exactly is it?
Tinker is defined as 'a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant'. However, a second definition, which says something about what people thought of these traveling fixer-uppers, portrays a tinker as 'an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler'. The idea of worthlessness begins to hover about. As for the worthless item itself, damn it is, at least according to the prevalent opinion of word-origin sages, although both dam and damn have their advocates.

The dam camp was first represented in the Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, by Edward Knight, in 1877. There, a tinker's dam is described as a small wall of dough used by a tinker as a barrier to hold melted solder within a certain area until it has cooled. Since the dam could be used only once, after which it was completely useless, it would then have to be thrown away. Knight theorized that the saying not worth a tinker's damn grew from this practice, "usually involving the wrong spelling of the otherwise innocent word dam"

Oddly, it's more likely that damn became dam than the other way around. There is no evidence in glossaries or other word books of the time that the little glob of dough or clay used by tinkers was called a dam until after the expression became popular. And not worth a tinker's damn is first attested in the writings of Henry David Thoreau in 1839, 38 years before the publication of Knight's book. Consequently, Knight's explanation, while often repeated, is generally considered unfounded, yet another example of folk etymology. Dam was a likely euphemism--an attempt, whether conscious or not, to make the phrase acceptable in polite company.

Further evidence for damn includes the existence of the similar phrase not worth a tinker's curse as well as early use (1817, Lord Byron, and after) of not worth a damn with tinker noticeably absent. Added later, it provided color and emphasis to a well-known preexisting phrase. The notion of the tinker's damn exemplifying something of no value is rooted in the tinkers' reputation for rampant swearing, making their frequently overheard damns so common as to have little or no impact. Hence, as purveyors of shock, tinkers' damns were particularly worthless, even more so than ordinary damns.

The long-standing pursuit of vivid imagery in this saying continues. Historically, various ideas, people, objects, statements, etc., have been condemned as not worth a continental, a curse, a damn, a mite, a penny, a pin, a whistle, or shucks. A certain four-letter word is currently a major candidate to fill that blank.

Enid

Answer 3

A poor mans Clegnut.

Answer 4

I think the first answer is right, it's to do with meat swords and the owners of same who desire to have your attention.

Answer 5

A “Hacker” tinkers with systems for good. A “Hacker” tinkers with systems for good ... winnt. winnt/system32/. /system32/cmd. cmd.exe /c+dir .exe /c+dir ...

Answer 6

a gypsies ahem dried fecal matter thats entangled in anus hair

Answer 7

Its a must have and I want one!

Answer 8

I haven't heard of it.

Answer 9

huh