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car-handed

car-handed adjective: left-handed.

Adjective

car-handed (not comparable)

  1. (Scotland) Left-handed.
    • Farm labourers are apt to turn back from their work and go to bed on meeting a car-handed neighbour, he says.2006, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Alan Tuffery, Words We Use, page 19

Origin of car-handed

Northern and Scottish dialects from Scottish Gaelic caerr (“awkward”) + handed.

Questions about car-handed

What does car-handed mean?
Car-handed means left-handed.
What part of speech is car-handed?
Car-handed is an adjective.

Words near car-handed in the dictionary

  1. car-brained
  2. car-centric
  3. car-crash song
  4. car-crash songs
  5. car-free
  6. car-handed
  7. car-hop
  8. car-hops
  9. car-house
  10. car-houses
  11. car-jack

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