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unˈhandy, a.
[un-1 7. Cf. WFris. on-, ûnhandich, Du. onhandig, LG. unhandig, Da. uhændig, Norw. uhendig, Sw. ohändig.]
1. Not easy to handle or manage; inconvenient, awkward, clumsy.
1664G. Etherege Love in Tub ii. iii, If she be not as kind as fair, But peevish and unhandy, Leave her. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 422 They took in Pieces all my clumsy unhandy Things. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 68 Our boat carried a large unhandy sail. 1778[W. H. Marshall] Minutes Agric., Digest 47 Their being worked double made them unhandy. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague ii. v. 114 These swords are ugly and unhandy things. 1871Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Feb. 91 The very size and nature of the rig of many of the Spanish ships rendered them unwieldy and ‘unhandy’, as sailors call it. 1876N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 32 An unhandy arrangement, which detracts from the value of the work.
2. Not skilful in using the hands; lacking in dexterity.
1669Shadwell Royal Shepherd i. i, O fie, Urania! how unhandy art thou! Sir, let me practise my little skill in surgery Upon you. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. ii, Yet in the common actions and behaviour of life, I have not seen a more clumsy, awkward, and unhandy people. 1798W. Hutton Life 6 Being hurt at seeing the nurse unhandy, she would do the work herself. 1850Grote Greece ii. lx. (1862) V. 288 The Akarnanian darters..were for this reason unhandy with their missiles. 1876Trevelyan Macaulay (1883) I. 123 He was unhandy to a degree quite unexampled in the experience of all who knew him.
fig.1683Kennett Erasm. on Folly 32 Wise men were so awkward and unhandy in the ordering of publick affairs. |