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southpaw, n. (a.) colloq. (orig. U.S., in Baseball).|ˈsaʊθpɔː|
[f. south a. + paw n.1]
1. A person's left hand. (In quot. 1848, a punch or blow with the left hand.)
1848Democratic B-hoy, ‘I say, Lewy, give him a sockdologer!’ ‘Curse the Old Hoss, what a south-paw he has given me!’ 1885Sporting Life 14 Jan. 4/3 They had always been accustomed to having their opponents hug their bases pretty close, out of respect for Morris' quick throw over to first with that south-paw of his. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §121/53 Southpaw, wrong hand or fist, the left hand or fist. 1948Chicago Tribune 20 Apr. i. 20/5 He waved his big south⁓paw and ducked under the roof.
2. One who pitches or throws with the left hand; a left-handed person.
In Boxing, a southpaw leads with his right hand.
1891Chicago Herald 24 July 6/1 The new south-paw..came to town yesterday. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 15 Apr. 8/5 Davis came up to bat... He faced the twirler right-handed. He always does with southpaws. 1932Ring Apr. 5/2 McCoy was a slow southpaw who had proved just a good workout for Joe Chip. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §430/10 Left-handed person,..south-paw. 1947J. Gunther Inside U.S.A. xl. 657 Ah won't even go to the Polo Grounds unless a southpaw's pitchin'. 1951Sport 6–12 Apr. 8/2 On the same bill, Joe Lucy, the young southpaw, meets South African lightweight Gerald Dreyer. 1955Sci. News Let. 14 May 310/2 The family cat may have a preferred paw.., and pussy is most often a southpaw when she is not ambidextrous. 1959Sunday Times 8 Nov. 32/6 In the ball parks all over the United States the so-called ‘diamond’, formed by the track between the bases, is always oriented to the same points of the compass, so that in whatever park a team is playing the pitcher on his mound will always have his right hand on the north side of his body; hence a left-hander is a ‘southpaw’. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. ii. 7/1 Rocket Rod Laver leads the greatest tennis show on earth into Boston Garden Monday night... The freckle-faced southpaw is the top-seeded player. 1970H. McLeave Question of Negligence (1973) vi. 48 ‘Nobody told me he was a southpaw.’ Even the psychiatrist had..forgotten that the surgeon cut with his left hand. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 26 June 1-b/2 The 6–0 lefthander, the only southpaw listed on the Angels' roster, struck out six and walked the same number. 1976‘A. Burgess’ Beard's Roman Women (1977) v. 110 Donatella, a south⁓paw, animated this [sc. her left shoulder-blade] while lifting the one remaining chair from the front room. 1978M. Kenyon Deep Pocket ix. 103 He wore shorts and boxing gloves. ‘'E's a southpaw,’ Peckover said.
3. attrib. or as adj. Left-handed; also transf., left-footed, and fig.
1891Cricket 29 Oct. 463/1 The Germantown man returned the ball like a flash to the wicket, and the ‘south-paw’ batsman was run out. 1932J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iii. 126 It was swell for Studs to play,..knowing he had made that good kick,..to run back and pick one of Helen's southpaw kicks out of the air. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 3 June 18/8 They would have been bunched against southpaw pitching. 1957R. Watson-Watt Three Steps to Victory xliii. 245 This was, however, a south-paw kind of compliment. 1969New Scientist 6 Nov. 277/2 Jack Bodell has just become the first south⁓paw heavyweight champion in British boxing history.
Hence ˈsouthpaw v. trans., to pitch with the left hand; ˈsouthpawing vbl. n., the action of pitching with the left hand.
1928Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 12 Apr. 8/1 Herb Pennock southpawed his way the route for the Yankees. 1938Chicago Tribune 4 Apr. 21/1 The White Sox positively refused to be awed today by the south⁓pawing of Larry French. 1951Sun (Baltimore) 23 Aug. 20/1 Jim Burns southpawed his eighth straight triumph. |