cack-handed, a. dial. or colloq.
(ˌkækˈhændɪd)
Also cag-, kack-, keck-handed.
[perh. f. cack n.]
Left-handed; ham-handed, clumsy, awkward. Hence ˌcack-ˈhandedness.
| 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. I. 365 Keck-handed, awkward, left-handed. 1859 N. & Q. VIII. 483 If a man, at hay time or harvest, holds his fork with his left hand lowest, they say, ‘Ah! he's no good! he's keck-handed!..’ 1893 Dartnell & Goddard Gloss. Wiltshire 21 Cack-handed, cag-handed. 1955 M. Allingham Beckoning Lady vi. 91, I never met such a kack-handed jackass in all my born days. 1959 P. McCutchan Storm South iv. 52 He would..moan about the cack-handedness of Bacon (which was nonsense, for Bacon was a first-rate steward). 1961 Spectator 22 Sept. 384 An insanely slothful or cack-handed publican. 1964 S. Jepson Fear in Wind i. 17 A series of kack-handed manœuvres..designed to keep one end of a stick on the ground. 1967 J. Potter Foul Play x. 125 When he saw the ball going the wrong side of him, he lunged his [hockey] stick out behind him... ‘Just thought I'd try a bit of your cack-handed stuff.’ |