keck-handed

English

Alternative forms

• keckhanded

Adjective

keck-handed (comparative more keck-handed, superlative most keck-handed)

1. Alternative form of cack-handed.
   • 2011, Jamie McKendrick, Ink Stone, →ISBN:

     D'Oliveira and Barbirolli smiled elatedly as if handing on a bat or a baton, unaware they'd bestowed their attention on a keck-handed, tone-deaf imposter who wasn't collecting signatures anyway, who just happened to be standing in the right place and was then pushed forwards with a pen and paper.

   • 1971, John Benson Sidgwick, R. C. Gamble, Amateur Astronomer's Handbook, →ISBN, page 21:

     The amateur who can handle ordinary carpenter's tools and is generally dexterous has a very definite advantage over one who is unpractical and keck-handed.

   • 1982, New Society - Volume 61, page 305:

     In the upshot, it looks like equal numbers of right-handed and keck-handed.