CACK-HANDED

PRONUNCIATION: (kak-HAN-did, KAK-han-)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Clumsy; awkward.
2. Left-handed.

ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from cack (excrement), ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate) which also gave us poppycock, cacophony, cacology, cacography, and cacoethes. Earliest documented use: 1854.
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BACK-HANDED - like "TNEMILPMOC"

CLACK-HANDED - a Flamenco castinet-player

LACK-HANDED - afflicted with phocomelia