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单词 cack-handed
释义

cack-handedadj.

Brit. /ˌkakˈhandᵻd/, U.S. /ˈkækˌhændᵻd/
Forms: Also cag-, kack-, keck-handed.
Etymology: perhaps < cack n. and adj.
dialect or colloquial.
Left-handed; ham-handed, clumsy, awkward.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > [adjective] > favouring one side
right-handeda1398
left-handeda1425
left hand1440
left-legged1606
sinister1818
katy-handed1822
left-footed1832
right-sided1850
cack-handed1854
dextral1871
sinistral1871
left-sided1875
lefty1886
southpaw1886
handed1910
molly-dook1941
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward > clumsy with the hands
handless1483
left-handed1579
butterfingered1615
heavy-handeda1634
thumbless1648
unhandy1669
mutton-fisted1737
two-fisted1774
numb-handed1849
butterfingers1851
buttery-fingered1853
cack-handed1854
Marlborough-handed1893
thumb-fingered1903
thumby1909
ham-handed1918
ham-fisted1928
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 365 Keck-handed, awkward, left-handed.
1859 Notes & Queries VIII. 483 If a man, at hay time or harvest, holds his fork with his left hand lowest, they say, ‘Ah! he's no good! he's keck-handed!..’
1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 21 Cack-handed, cag-handed.
1955 M. Allingham Beckoning Lady vi. 91 I never met such a kack-handed jackass in all my born days.
1961 Spectator 22 Sept. 384 An insanely slothful or cack-handed publican.
1964 S. Jepson Fear in Wind i. 17 A series of kack-handed manœuvres..designed to keep one end of a stick on the ground.
1967 J. Potter Foul Play x. 125 When he saw the ball going the wrong side of him, he lunged his [hockey] stick out behind him... ‘Just thought I'd try a bit of your cack-handed stuff.’

Derivatives

ˌcack-ˈhandedness n.
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1959 P. McCutchan Storm South iv. 52 He would..moan about the cack-handedness of Bacon (which was nonsense, for Bacon was a first-rate steward).

Draft additions September 2013

ˌcack-ˈhandedly adv. clumsily, awkwardly.
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1980 Guardian 12 Dec. 12/4 It was the Government which cack-handedly attempted to ‘help’ industry by cutting public spending and borrowing.
2010 K. M. Grant Belle's Song i. 18 She'd even untangled the knots in the wool for the three-sided cushion I was cack-handedly trying to embroider.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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