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cack-handedness

noun

Etymology

From cack-handed + -ness.

  1. inherited from *handuz✻
  2. inherited from *handu✻
  3. inherited from hand
  4. inherited from hond
  5. suffixed as handed — “hand + ed”
  6. compounded as cack-handed — “cag + handed”
  7. suffixed as cack-handedness — “cack-handed + ness”

Definitions

  1. Left-handedness.

  2. Clumsiness or incompetence.

    • “No,” I say and take the phone offline. “It's mismanagement. Bungling. Ineptitude. Incompetence. Cack-handedness."
    • Such opportunities help learners to overcome their cack-handedness and to develop their ability to use equipment comfortably.

  3. Back-handedness

    • Martin Maloney 's painting, Sony Levi, with its assured cack-handedness and considered vacuity can stand as an emblem of the movement.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA