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naked-handed

adj

Etymology

From naked + handed.

  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 naked-handed — “naked + handed”

Definitions

  1. Lacking tools or weapons.

    • "All right," Tug whispered back; "but we must get a stone or a club! 'Twon't do to go at 'em naked-handed."
    • The most ingenious of our own race of people would be puzzled to get into operation any works to answer that purpose, naked-handed as those people were, and in their state of ignorance when alone in this country.

  2. Defenseless.

The neighborhood

Derived

naked-handedly

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for naked-handed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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