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either-handed

either-handed adjective: able to use either (right or left) hand, often equally well; ambidextrous.

Adjective

either-handed (not comparable)

  1. Able to use either (right or left) hand, often equally well; ambidextrous.
    • There certainly is, amongst mankind, a vast weight of opinion against my position that man is, by nature, as either-handed as an ape, and that custom should follow nature.1879, Browne's Phonographic Monthly, volume 4, page 231

Origin of either-handed

From either + handed.

Words formed from either-handed

  • either-handedness

Questions about either-handed

What does either-handed mean?
Either-handed means able to use either (right or left) hand, often equally well; ambidextrous.
What part of speech is either-handed?
Either-handed is an adjective.

Words near either-handed in the dictionary

  1. either does or dies
  2. either doing or dying
  3. either done or died
  4. either way
  5. either-either
  6. either-handed
  7. either-or
  8. either-ors
  9. either-way offence
  10. either-way offences
  11. either/or

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