tinker russian

• вози́ться

  mess around/doing something slowly

  tinker/fiddle

• возня́

  fuss

  tinkering/fiddling

  noise, racket

• ковыря́ть

  peck, pick, tinker

• пая́льщик

  tinman, tinsmith, tinker

• порта́ч

  bungler, tinker

• порта́чить

  bungle, tinker

• вози́вшийся

  fussing, tinkering, pottering, busying oneself, bothering with

• возя́щийся

  fussing, messing around, tinkering, pottering, busy (with something)

• ковыря́вший

  picking, poking, prodding

  digging (lightly), fiddling with, tinkering with, messing with

• ковыря́ющий

  picking, poking, prodding, tinkering, fiddling, gouging

• ковыря́ющийся

  picking, fiddling, tinkering, poking around

• мастеря́щий

  crafting, making, tinkering, who is crafting

• повози́вшийся

  who has fussed (with), who has tinkered (with), who has bothered (with)

• поде́лывать

  to do from time to time, to dabble in, to tinker with, to do occasionally

• поковыря́вший

  having poked, having picked, having tinkered, having fiddled

• химичащий

  experimenting (with chemicals), doing chemistry, tinkering (with chemicals)

Examples

• Мой оте́ц лю́бит вози́ться в гараже́.My father loves doing some tinkering in the garage.