handed en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈhændɪd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (General-American) audio
- /ˈhændəd/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *handuz Proto-West Germanic *handu Old English hand Middle English hond English hand Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English handed From hand + -ed.
Meanings
- (in-compounds, not-comparable) Having a certain kind or number of hands.
- (informal, not-comparable) Synonym of chiral.
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(in-compounds, not-comparable) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
As poisonous tongued as handed
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
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(not-comparable, obsolete) With hands joined; hand in hand.
yet now, if any two be but once handed in the Church, and have tasted in any sort the nuptiall bed, let them finde themselves never so mistak’n in their dispositions through any error, concealment, or misadventure, that through their different tempers, thoughts, and constitutions, they can neither be to one another a remedy against lonelines, nor live in any union or contentment all their dayes, yet they shall, so they be but found suitably weapon’d to the least possibility of sensuall enjoyment, be made, spight of antipathy to fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomnes and despaire of all sociable delight in the ordinance which God establisht to that very end.
1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:Into their inmost bower, / Handed they went.
1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Deriveds
glad-handed · short handed · scram-handed · swift-handed · closehanded · side-handed · bloody-handed · broken-handed · wide-handed · left-handed specialist · paper-handed · worldly-handed · weak-handed · numb-handed · ready-handed · short-handed · ham-handed · fairhanded · left-handed cigarette · underhanded · white-handed · open-handed · iron-handed · secondhanded · sleight-handed · crosshanded · mbi-handed · uphanded · frank-handed · right-handed · evenhanded · dead-handed · kack-handed · overhanded · left-handed path · white-handed gibbon · many-handed · cow handed · doublehanded · mob-handed · myriad-handed · red-handed · fore-handed · thousand-handed · dry-handed · ironhanded · crabbed-handed · light-handed · mob handed · handedly · steady-handed · hundred-handed · second-handed · slack-handed · large-handed · neat-handed · sweet-handed · three-handed · naked-handed · barehanded · idle-handed · lusty-handed · cow-handed · hard-handed · clean-handed · handedness · pink-handed · right-handed path · high-handed · deadly-handed · have one's ass handed to one · lefthanded · delicate-handed · left-handed compliment · hook-handed · level-handed · off-handed · spare-handed · free-handed · catch red-handed · Marlborough-handed · backhanded · sure-handed · both-handed · brokenhanded · back-handed · katy-handed · partan-handed · fair-handed · wing-handed · fast-handed · get one's ass handed to one · right handed · nimble-handed · hardhanded · offhanded · empty-handed · keck-handed · deadhanded · ambi-handed · lady-handed · gripe-handed · two-handed · cross-handed · single-handed · room-handed · coarse-handed · soft handed · gawk-handed · gouty-handed · powerful-handed · spade-handed · dirty-handed · click-handed · bare-handed · yare-handed · iron handed · left-handed · quick-handed · hard handed · heavy-handed · gentle-handed · cross-handedness · full-handed · loose-handed · strong-handed · soft-handed · fourhanded · lily-handed · dab-handed · back-handed compliment · over-handed · emptyhanded · car-handed · black-handed gibbon · million-handed · gripple-handed · tway-handed · doughty-handed · up-handed · molly-handed · under-handed · freehanded · mighty-handed · shovel-handed · single handed · defthanded · four-handed · shorthanded · forehanded · well-handed · close-handed · horny-handed · double-handed · even-handed · cack-handed · coarsehanded · either-handed · strait-handed · toom-handed · tender-handed · Hundred-handed · deft-handed · one-handed
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Translations (2)
pl mający rękę (having a peculiar or characteristic hand) · fi kätinen (having a peculiar or characteristic hand)