car-handed

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English

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Etymology

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Northern and Scottish dialects from Scottish Gaelic caerr (“awkward”) + handed.

Adjective

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car-handed (not comparable)

  1. (Scotland) Left-handed.
    • 2006, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Alan Tuffery, Words We Use, page 19:
      Farm labourers are apt to turn back from their work and go to bed on meeting a car-handed neighbour, he says.
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