quick-handed

quick-handed adjective: quick and dextrous.

Adjective

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

Quick and dextrous.
- Ironically, the successful conviction on the part of Columbia's graduate students to preserve for posterity what I believe is perhaps the most thorough-going and most painlessly digested summary of economic-thought developments has never had Professor Mitchell's backing, and before his death...1956, William Ernest Kuhn, Textbooks on Economic Thought: An Analysis of Some of Their Shortcomings, page 2
- Particularly bright people did not turn out to be especially quick-handed, and particularly quick-handed people did not turn out to be especially bright.1973, Anne Storz, Psychology '73-'74, →ISBN, page 227
Done quickly and efficiently.
- I should like first to thank Cristina Gutierrez, of my office staff, for her tireless and quick-handed work transcribing the hundreds of tape-cassettes on which the various drafts of the present work have been dictated.1990, Steve Allen, Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality, page xvii
- Of the quick-handed sketches, the young furniture designer enthuses, "I find it's so important to keep jotting down ideas, even if they're the worst ideas in the world.2005, Jennifer New, Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art, →ISBN, page 120

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

Quickly and efficiently.
- They drain the stalk out with their arms, quick-handed, and cleanse it with a stream of mead and filters.1890, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, The Hymns of the Rigveda - Volume 2, page 44
- As the two men, quick-handed, laid Bernard on a stretcher, Tess asked: 'Is he dead?'2000, C. P. Snow, The Malcontents, →ISBN, page 93

What does quick-handed mean?: Quick-handed means quick and dextrous.
What part of speech is quick-handed?: Quick-handed can be an adjective or an adverb.

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