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horny-handedly

horny-handedly adverb: done with hands that are tough and horny from manual labor.

Adverb

horny-handedly (comparative more horny-handedly, superlative most horny-handedly)

  1. Done with hands that are tough and horny from manual labor.
    • One time he worked in a mill horny-handedly, But, as he said to his friends very candidly, Nature had blessed him with quickness of jaw, So he gave up perspiring and took to the law.1892, Arthur Gordon Burgoyne, All Sorts of Pittsburgers, page 163

Forms of horny-handedly

comparativemore horny-handedly
superlativemost horny-handedly

Origin of horny-handedly

From horny-handed + -ly.

Questions about horny-handedly

What does horny-handedly mean?
Horny-handedly means done with hands that are tough and horny from manual labor.
What part of speech is horny-handedly?
Horny-handedly is an adverb.

Words near horny-handedly in the dictionary

  1. horny on main
  2. Horny Tim's
  3. horny toad
  4. horny toads
  5. horny-handed
  6. horny-handedly
  7. horny-handedness
  8. Hornyak
  9. Hornyaks
  10. hornyhanded
  11. hornyhandedness

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