lefty
1or left·ie
- a left-handed person.
- a leftist.
Origin of lefty
1lefty
2- left-handed.
- leftist; left-wing.
- with the left hand; in a left-handed manner: He bats lefty.
Origin of lefty
2Grove
- Sir George,1820–1900, English musicologist.
- Robert MosesLefty, 1900–75, U.S. baseball player.
Carlton
- Stephen NormanSteveLefty, born 1944, U.S. baseball player.
- a male given name.
Examples from the Web for lefty
Contemporary Examples of lefty
One lefty tweeter even complained that an invasion of icky American tourists would undermine “family values” in Cuba.
Malloy, meanwhile, in his first term as governor of Connecticut, has delivered on a wish list of lefty priorities.
Dan Malloy Is Progressives’ Dream Governor. So Why Isn’t He Winning?David Freedlander
October 30, 2014
As lefty publications such as Mother Jones love to point out, “Most Red States Take More Money from Washington Than They Put In.”
When he says that,” Lefty Wilson, the trainer, said, “he's liable to get three goals.
Lefty pinko Center for Constitutional Rights embraces the Constitution—says it means government righting wrongs.
Historical Examples of lefty
Lefty threw the unused part of the deck to the center of the table.
Card TrickWalter Bupp AKA Randall Garrett
Down in Texas you could get shot for a crack like that, Lefty!
Card TrickWalter Bupp AKA Randall Garrett
Lefty is a cheap grandstander, and I'll settle with him myself.
Card TrickWalter Bupp AKA Randall Garrett
"Why, this Lodge," Lefty said, waving a hand around loosely.
Card TrickWalter Bupp AKA Randall Garrett
Lefty was all guts now that I was hung up on the gun barrel.
Card TrickWalter Bupp AKA Randall Garrett
lefty
- a left-winger
- mainly US and Canadian a left-handed person
Carlton
- a town in N central England, in S Nottinghamshire. Pop: 48 493 (2001)
grove
- a small wooded area or plantation
- a road lined with houses and often trees, esp in a suburban area
- (capital as part of a street name)Ladbroke Grove
Word Origin for grove
Word Origin and History for lefty
grove
Old English graf "grove, copse" (akin to græafa "thicket"), from Proto-Germanic *graibo-, but not certainly found in other Germanic languages and with no known cognates anywhere else.