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handly

adj

Etymology

From Middle English handly, handliche; equivalent to hand + -ly. Compare German handlich (“handy, manageable”), Swedish handlig (“handy”).

  1. inherited from handly

Definitions

  1. Synonym of handy.

    • George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more.
    • […] Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris published a handly manual in off-set intitled Bibliography — International Migration of Manpower (1).
    • The Practical Guide for Italy, comprising the North and Central portions of the Peninsula has just been issued, and fully sustains the established character of the series. It is accompanied with a handly little map illustrative of the war.

  2. Of or pertaining to the hand

    Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.

    • The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'.

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