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handlesome

adj

Etymology

From handle + -some.

  1. inherited from *handulōną✻ — “to take, grip, feel”
  2. inherited from *handulōn✻
  3. inherited from handlian — “to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”
  4. inherited from handlen
  5. formed as handlesome — “handle + -some”

Definitions

  1. Typified by, or requiring handling

    Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage

    • River navigation is a different thing to steering a motor-car on solid dry land. But a thirty horse-power launch, doing thirteen miles an hour, is a handlesome craft, and we soon left behind us.
    • "[…] Tom, you had better hunt the bitch pack, Dog hounds is none so handlesome […]
    • She said: "So I sure got my hands full." Handful. To mean: handlesome. Fit to be handed from hand to hand. Hand me down my walkincane.

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