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kack-handed

kack-handed is the alternative spelling of cack-handed.

Meaning of cack-handed

Adjective

cack-handed (comparative more cack-handed, superlative most cack-handed)

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Back-handed.

Forms of kack-handed

comparativemore kack-handed
superlativemost kack-handed

Questions about kack-handed

What is kack-handed the alternative spelling of?
Kack-handed is the alternative spelling of cack-handed.

Words near kack-handed in the dictionary

  1. kachunk
  2. kachunks
  3. Kachur
  4. Kacie
  5. kack
  6. kack-handed
  7. kacked
  8. kacking
  9. kackle
  10. kackled
  11. kackles

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