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Handly

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of handy. not-comparable, rare

    "George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more."

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to the hand; manual. not-comparable, obsolete

    "The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'."

Etymology

From Middle English handly, handliche; equivalent to hand + -ly. Compare German handlich (“handy, manageable”), Swedish handlig (“handy”).

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