handly

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handly

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From Middle English handly, handliche; equivalent to hand + -ly. Compare German handlich (“handy, manageable”), Swedish handlig (“handy”).

adjective

not comparable, rare Synonym of handy. George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more.
Similar: handy
not comparable, obsolete Of or pertaining to the hand; manual. The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'.

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@misc{handly_2026,
  title = {handly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/handly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}