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tinker's_damn

tinker's damn

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Noun

tinker's damn

  1. An insignificant or worthless amount or thing.

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  • The Maven's Word of the Day
  • 1868 March, Mr. Thom. White's Little Sermon, in Putnam's Magazine, page 555: "No, Peter; women, now, are not worth a tinker's mill-damthat's what I think." [...] Just what a "tinker's dam" is, I have no means of knowing; but I believe it to be something very worthless indeed.
  1. tinker's damn” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
  2. 1858 December, January Searle, Hyra, the gipsy Prophetess, chapter XXI, in Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine, volume 3, number 6, page 546: "[...] and I doesn't care a tinker's dam about him."
  3. 1 2 A tinker's damn”, The Phrase Finder, Gary Martin.
  4. 1 2 tinker's damn” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).