- cack-hand
- cack-hand·ed;
English syllables. 2014.
cack-hand
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cack-hand·ed — … Useful english dictionary
cack-handed — cack hand·ed … English syllables
cack-handedly — cackˈ handˈedly adverb • • • Main Entry: ↑cack … Useful english dictionary
cack-handedness — cackˈ handˈedness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑cack … Useful english dictionary
cack-handed — cack hand·ed (kăkʹhănʹdĭd) adj. Chiefly British 1. Left handed. 2. Awkward; clumsy. [Perhaps from Old Norse keikr, bent backwards; akin to Danish keite, left handed.] * * * … Universalium
cack-handed — cack hand|ed [ˌkæk ˈhændıd] adj BrE informal [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from Old Norse keikr bent backwards ] careless and tending to drop things, or badly done = ↑clumsy … Dictionary of contemporary English
cack-handed — [19] Cack comes from a 15thcentury dialect verb meaning ‘defecate’, which probably came from Middle Dutch cacken. It goes back via Latin cacāre to an ultimate Indo European base *kak , from which a lot of other Indo European languages get words… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
cack-handed — adj British clumsy, inept. The term originally meant left handed, probably deriving from the idea of handling cack (excrement). Although the connection seems obvious, this expression is probably too old to be influenced by reports of the Muslim… … Contemporary slang
cack-handed — [19] Cack comes from a 15thcentury dialect verb meaning ‘defecate’, which probably came from Middle Dutch cacken. It goes back via Latin cacāre to an ultimate Indo European base *kak , from which a lot of other Indo European languages get words… … Word origins
kack-handed — cackˈ handˈed or kackˈ handˈed adjective (informal) 1. Left handed 2. Clumsy • • • Main Entry: ↑cack * * * kack handed var. cack handed a … Useful english dictionary
