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neat-handed

adj

Etymology

From neat + 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 neat-handed — “neat + handed”

Definitions

  1. Dextrous

    Dextrous; having the skill and discipline to do precision work neatly.

    • Lastly, you must learn to be diligent to perform whatsoever your Mistress commands you, to be neat in your habit, modest in your carriage, silent when she is angry, willing to please, quick and neat handed about what you have to do.
    • Hard by a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses;
    • […] if I bid you do what you thought wrong, there would be no light-footed running, no neat-handed alacrity, no lively glance and animated complexion.

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