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handshoe

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handshoe¹

Where it comes from

Compound of hand + shoe, likely as a calque of Dutch handschoen (“glove, mitten”) or German Handschuh (“glove”).

noun handshoes

  1. nonstandard A glove or mitten. I doubt not, but if a man from his cradle had been always used to go bare-foot, whilst his hands were constantly wrapped up in warm mittins, and covered with handshoes, as the dutch call gloves; [...]

Handshoe²

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See handshoe.

proper noun Handshoes

  1. countable, uncountable A surname from German.
  2. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Knott County, Kentucky, United States.

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"handshoe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/handshoe. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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handshoe. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/handshoe

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"handshoe." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/handshoe.

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@misc{handshoe_2026,
  title = {handshoe},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/handshoe},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}