Toom-handed

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Emptyhanded. Scotland, dialectal, not-comparable

    "Tis maybe better, I'll take fat ye gee, Ye're nae toom-handed gin your heart be free"

Adverb
  1. 1
    Emptyhanded. Scotland, dialectal, not-comparable

    "I wis he had na been so headstrong ; but it's a' his ain fault : howsever, it would na be canny to gang toom-handed, and I hae got a bit bill for five score pounds that I'm mindit to gie him."

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"Tis maybe better, I'll take fat ye gee, Ye're nae toom-handed gin your heart be free"

Etymology

From toom + handed.

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