Car-handed

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Left-handed. Scotland, not-comparable

    "Farm labourers are apt to turn back from their work and go to bed on meeting a car-handed neighbour, he says."

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"Farm labourers are apt to turn back from their work and go to bed on meeting a car-handed neighbour, he says."

Etymology

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

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