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cackhandedness

cackhandedness is the alternative form of cack-handedness.

Meaning of cack-handedness

Noun

cack-handedness (uncountable)

  1. Left-handedness.
    • Now the chances of the casual golfer being able to borrow a set of left-handed clubs are pretty slim ; so I had to do the best I could with a bagful of right-handed clubs which, owing to my natural cack-handedness, I had to grip with the right hand over the left...1946, Spike Hughes, Opening Bars: Beginning an Autobiography, page 258
  2. Clumsiness or incompetence.
    • “No,” I say and take the phone offline. “It's mismanagement. Bungling. Ineptitude. Incompetence. Cack-handedness."2008, Ramsey Campbell, The Grin of the Dark, →ISBN, page 237
  3. Back-handedness
    • Martin Maloney 's painting, Sony Levi, with its assured cack-handedness and considered vacuity can stand as an emblem of the movement.1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, →ISBN, page 217

Origin of cackhandedness

From cackhanded + -ness.

Questions about cackhandedness

What is cackhandedness the alternative form of?
Cackhandedness is the alternative form of cack-handedness.

Words near cackhandedness in the dictionary

  1. Cacker
  2. cackerel
  3. cackerels
  4. cackhanded
  5. cackhandedly
  6. cackhandedness
  7. cackier
  8. cackiest
  9. cacking
  10. cacking on
  11. cacking up

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