cack-handed

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Clumsy; inept.
    — Constance endeavoured to get eight little boys to dance also; but the little lads were to shy, what an old woman, speaking of her grandson, calls “too daffish and keck-handed to learn such aunty-praunty antics,” and all that Constance could get in the way of male support was to induce eight little lads to look on, bend their knees, and bow at intervals, whilst the maidens sang and danced.
  2. Left-handed.
    — A left-handed child would be held up to ridicule, and the hand tied to prevent its use. In some parts of England left-handers are called “cack-handed” […]
  3. Back-handed.

词形变化

more cack-handed comparative most cack-handed superlative cackhanded alternative keck-handed alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
cack-handedly cack-handedness

词源

From cag (“knob, stump”) + handed; cf. also cack (“excrement”).
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