handholder
nounEtymology
From hand + holder.
Definitions
One who holds hands (with someone else).
- We were never handholders. We were always withdrawn and alone, unlike Italians, Poles, Jews, and other friends I had who were fresh and spontaneous in their affection.
- They preferred each other’s company to any other in the world. They were old-fashioned and unashamed handholders.
- Jenny hadn’t been a natural hugger, but she’d been a smiler, a handholder.
Someone or something that provides reassurance and/or assistance for doing something…
Someone or something that provides reassurance and/or assistance for doing something difficult.
- In the meantime, Bouchard will continue to play his role as handholder and benefactor to his province and peacemaker for the country.
The neighborhood
- neighborhand-hold
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA