numb-handed
numb-handed adjective: having hands that are numb.
Adjective
numb-handed (comparative more numb-handed, superlative most numb-handed)
- Having hands that are numb.
- The wine-dark seas pass under, and the heavy boats swing round, and the men roll their nets and go, numb-handed, backs bent, harbor bound, gift-laden, home: where light, fast fading, locks land in gold, and gulls cross, crying, the scene, and cross again, crying.2014, Risa Bear, Collected Poems, →ISBN
- I was in the delivery room as she was born into this world, nauseated by the excitement and numb-handed from Izzy squeezing the life from my digits.2010, Joe Boxer, Memoirs of a Serial Bachelor, →ISBN, page 40
- Inept or clumsy.
- 'Oh, you scandalous, hypocritical, rusty-booted, numb-handed son of a puffing corn-cutter, why don't you turn your attention to feeding hens, cultivating cabbages, or making pantaloons for small folk, instead of killing hounds in this wholesale way'! roared Jack; an enquiry that set him foaming...2014, Robert Smith Surtees, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
- Most folks associate London with White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and struggling numb-handed to start a fire in the snow. (You know how that one ends.)2014, Leath Tonino, Masters of Dig: A tour of authorial abodes
Examples of numb-handed in a sentence
- Soaked to the skin and numb-handed, we secured the boat between two grounded bergs and camped in a long-deserted Inuit hut.2009, Ranulph Fiennes, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, →ISBN:
- He signs the painting in a vigorous but numb-handed red - always he finds the signature the most uncomfortable strokes in the canvas - and steps back to observe...1978, Sam Borenstein, Texts by William Kuhns and Léo Rosshandler, page 14:
Forms of numb-handed
| comparative | more numb-handed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most numb-handed |
Origin of numb-handed
From numb + handed.
Questions about numb-handed
- What does numb-handed mean?
- Numb-handed means having hands that are numb.
- How do you use numb-handed in a sentence?
- Soaked to the skin and numb-handed, we secured the boat between two grounded bergs and camped in a long-deserted Inuit hut.
- What part of speech is numb-handed?
- Numb-handed is an adjective.
Words near numb-handed in the dictionary
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