cag-handed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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."
From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard
You may see many a cag-handed person hacking at a fowl.
From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard
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