Associations to the word «Left-handed»
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Wiktionary
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. Awkward or maladroit.
LEFT-HANDED, noun. Left-handed people, taken as a whole.
LEFT-HANDED CIGARETTE, noun. (slang) marijuana cigarette
LEFT-HANDED COMPLIMENT, noun. (idiomatic) A complimentary remark which is ambiguous or ineptly worded, so that it may be interpreted as having an unflattering or dismissive sense.
LEFT-HANDED SPECIALIST, noun. (baseball) A left-handed relief pitcher who specializes in getting left-handed or poor right-handed switch batters out .
Dictionary definition
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. Using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors".
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent".
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior.
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. Rotating to the left.
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. Ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment".
LEFT-HANDED, adjective. Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse.
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