cackhanded
cackhanded is the alternative spelling of cack-handed.
Meaning of cack-handed
Adjective
cack-handed (comparative more cack-handed, superlative most cack-handed)
- Clumsy; inept.
- Constance endeavoured to get eight little boys to dance also; but the little lads were to shy, what an old woman, speaking of her grandson, calls “too daffish and keck-handed to learn such aunty-praunty antics,” and all that Constance could get in the way of male support was to induce eight little...1905, Lady Catherine Milnes Gaskell, chapter 4, in Spring in a Shropshire Abbey, London: Smith, Elder & Co., pages 177–178
- Left-handed.
- A left-handed child would be held up to ridicule, and the hand tied to prevent its use. In some parts of England left-handers are called “cack-handed” […]1922, Edmund J. Sullivan, chapter 8, in Line: An Art Study, London: Chapman & Hall, page 88
- Back-handed.
Forms of cackhanded
| comparative | more cackhanded |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cackhanded |
Words formed from cackhanded
Questions about cackhanded
- What is cackhanded the alternative spelling of?
- Cackhanded is the alternative spelling of cack-handed.
Words near cackhanded in the dictionary
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