cack-handed

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cack-handed

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From cag (“knob, stump”) + handed; cf. also cack (“excrement”).

adjective more cack-handed · most cack-handed · cackhanded · keck-handed

Clumsy; inept. Constance endeavoured to get eight little boys to dance also; but the little lads were to shy, what an old woman, speaking of her grandson, calls “too daffish and keck-handed to learn such aunty-praunty antics,” and all that Constance could get in the way of male support was to induce eight little l
Left-handed. A left-handed child would be held up to ridicule, and the hand tied to prevent its use. In some parts of England left-handers are called “cack-handed” […]
Back-handed.

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@misc{cack_handed_2026,
  title = {cack-handed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cack-handed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}