handsies en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From hand + -sies.
Meanings
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(childish, plural, plural-only) The hands.
His mom spoke in the happy singsong voice of a children’s TV show host. “No, no, Marty. Poopy is dirty. Let’s wash your handsies.”
2013, Tim Green, chapter 7, in Force Out, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 23:
- (informal, plural, plural-only) Flirtatious or lascivious touching.