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either-handed en · ADJ

Etymology

From either + handed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Able to use either (right or left) hand, often equally well; ambidextrous.
    • There certainly is, amongst mankind, a vast weight of opinion against my position that man is, by nature, as either-handed as an ape, and that custom should follow nature. 1879, Browne's Phonographic Monthly, volume 4, page 231:

Deriveds

either-handedness

Relateds

both-handed