What's the difference between tickler and tinkler?
Tickler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, tickles.
(n.) Something puzzling or difficult.
(n.) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.
(n.) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe a system using an addressograph card and tickler file to facilitate the lending and returning of radiographic jackets, which brings into accountability both the borrower and the lender.
(2) This study investigates the influence of a microcomputer tickler system on the ordering of mammograms.
(3) Use of "tickler files" or scanning of computerized records are considerably less common practices.
(4) The reversal of these contact-sex roles (female tickler vs. male cuddler) did not affect the developmental preference for less cuddling stimulation of the 3 oldest groups of girls; however, the youngest girls now avoided male cuddlers, while the boys were found to prefer male cuddlers at all 4 age levels.
(5) Many was the time I had felt the Tickler in her hand.
(6) Since then it's been a parade of leading chanteuses, from X Factor winner Leona Lewis to ivory-tickler Alicia Keys, with even some rockers entering the fray.
(7) This developmental decrease was most prevalent, for both boys and girls, when the contact agents were a female cuddler versus a male tickler.
(8) Then it was up and over, every man, to shake the hand of a foe as a friend, or slap his back like a brother would; exchanging gifts of biscuits, tea, Maconochie's stew, Tickler's jam … for cognac, sausages, cigars, beer, sauerkraut; or chase six hares, who jumped from a cabbage-patch, or find a ball and make of a battleground a football pitch.
(9) Unlike the Oscars, the Globes split their key categories in two – and the classification of Birdman as a rib-tickler rather than a mordant study of middle-aged failure may have helped catapult it to the frontrunner at this year’s awards, with seven nominations.
(10) He will have to do it (Clarkson's Australian accent is a rib-tickler) on Skype.
Tinkler
Definition:
(n.) A tinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nathan Tinkler’s Hunter Sports Group has confirmed it will sell the Newcastle Jets and its A-League licence.
(2) One-time mining magnate Nathan Tinkler's Buildev Group paid $66,000, the Gazal family's development company Gazcorp paid $137,000, and the Obeid-linked Australian Water Holdings (AWH) paid $137,000 for fake services invoiced by EightByFive, the inquiry has heard.
(3) But, there’s really not anything that I as a candidate or a backbencher in the government have any influence over.” The commission earlier heard that Nathan Tinkler’s company Buildev was paying the wage of another of Owen’s staffers, media adviser Josh Hodges.
(4) In a statement released on Friday , the Jets outlined Tinkler’s intention to offload the club after recently parting company with his NRL club the Newcastle Knights.
(5) Back in 2010 when Nathan Tinkler was a mining billionaire and star of the BRW Rich List, he had to file a tax return.
(6) Tinkler said Manchester City’s $11m takeover of Melbourne Heart, now renamed Melbourne City, was an ownership model that could become more common among A-League clubs.
(7) Federal Liberal MP Bob Baldwin, who supported Tinkler’s plans for a Newcastle coal loader, may be called to give evidence after the inquiry heard that Buildev made donations to his campaign.
(8) German, Spanish, and English clubs are best placed to groom young talent in Australia,” Tinkler said.
(9) Tinkler told Sydney’s Sky Sports radio on Friday HSG had been in talks with foreign investors, including clubs in England and Germany, SBS reported .