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cag-handed

/ ˌkæɡˈhændɪd /

adjective

  1. dialect,  a variant of cack-handed

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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You may see many a cag-handed person hacking at a fowl.

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If any one be carving awkwardly with the left wrist doubled under, the right arm angularly extended, and the knife sawing at a joint, our village miners and country Californians call it "cack-" or "cag-handed."

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Cag-handed is worse than back-handed; it means awkward, twisted, and clumsy.

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