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car-handed en · ADJ

Etymology

Northern and Scottish dialects from Scottish Gaelic caerr (“awkward”) + handed.

Meanings

  1. (Scotland, not-comparable) Left-handed.
    • Farm labourers are apt to turn back from their work and go to bed on meeting a car-handed neighbour, he says. 2006, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Alan Tuffery, Words We Use, page 19: