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I have just realised that an English expression for left-handers, which I will render as 'cacky-whiffy', is a phrase I have never seen on paper. Can someone elucidate?
mav,
This appears to be an even more derogatory insult than the "cack-handed" whence it apparently sprang. "Cack" is British/Australian slang for rubbish or excrement (I certainly have heard and used the term "bird cack" in my time) and "cack-handed" is slang for awkward, and thence, apparently left-handed (cf similar usage of French word for left "gauche" for awkward).
See http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/c.htm
cack-handed also rated a mention in one of our threads here from July: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=3028
"whiffy" is cited at the same slang site as meaning "smelling unpleasant".
I'm sure you get the drift.
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