Editing Tinker (section)

==Description==
''Tinker'' for metal-worker is attested from the thirteenth century as ''tyckner'' or ''tinkler''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/scottishgypsiesu00macr/scottishgypsiesu00macr_djvu.txt|title=Full text of 'Scottish Gypsies under the Stewarts'|website=archive.org|year=1894}}</ref> Some travelling groups and [[Romani people]] specialised in the trade, and the name was particularly associated with indigenous [[Irish Travellers]] and [[Scottish_Gypsy_and_Traveller_groups#Indigenous_Highland_Travellers|Scottish Highland Travellers]] – the name of whose language ''[[Beurla Reagaird]]'' means "metalworkers".<ref name ="Queen's">Kirk, J. & Ó Baoill, D. ''Travellers and their Language'' (2002) [[Queen's University Belfast]] {{ISBN|0-85389-832-4}} {{page?|date=May 2022}}</ref>  However, this use is considered offensive.<ref name="ced">{{cite news |title=Tinker|url=http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tinker |work=Collins English Dictionary |edition=Complete & Unabridged eleventh |access-date=24 October 2012}}</ref>

The term "tinker", in British English, may refer to a mischievous child.<ref name="ced"/>