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cack-handed

[kak-han-did]

adjective

Chiefly British Informal.
  1. clumsy; lacking skill with the hands.

  2. left-handed.



cack-handed

/ ˌæˈæԻɪ /

adjective

  1. left-handed

  2. clumsy

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cack-handed1

First recorded in 1850–55; origin uncertain; perhaps from Old Norse keikr “bent backwards”; akin to Danish keite “left-handed”; perhaps from English dialect cack, keck “awkward” (of unknown origin). An obsolete noun sense “excrement” is found in Old English (in “latrine” ); the obsolete verb sense ( mid-15th century ) appears in Middle English cakken “to void excrement,” from Latin ; akin to Greek 첹â “to void excrement,” Middle Irish cacc “dung,” and perhaps to Greek 첹ó “b”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cack-handed1

from dialect cack excrement, from the fact that clumsy people usually make a mess; via Middle Low German or Middle Dutch from Latin to defecate
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She said: "This cack-handed, cannabis-fuelled young man would try everything he would normally do to work out why she was crying and then he would move on to stopping that crying."

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But to condemn an entire sport for the tin-eared and cack-handed Twitter exchanges of two men who ought to have known better wouldn't be fair.

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They added that a meeting between the Attorney General Suella Braverman and devolved ministers on Saturday was "last-minute, fractious, and cack-handed".

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As Krystal Ball has rightly mocked, even now the media are whipping up fears that the "Orange Mussolini" may stage some kind of cack-handed coup to block the handover to Biden.

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Elsewhere in the driver market, Williams have finally put an end to speculation about their line-up - after their rather cack-handed attempts to dampen it down last weekend only heightened it - by reconfirming that George Russell and Nicholas Latifi are under contract and will remain.

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