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numb-handed

adj

Etymology

From numb + 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 numb-handed — “numb + handed”

Definitions

  1. Having hands that are numb.

    • I was in the delivery room as she was born into this world, nauseated by the excitement and numb-handed from Izzy squeezing the life from my digits.
    • Soaked to the skin and numb-handed, we secured the boat between two grounded bergs and camped in a long-deserted Inuit hut.

  2. Inept or clumsy.

    • Most folks associate London with White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and struggling numb-handed to start a fire in the snow. (You know how that one ends.)

The neighborhood

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