handlesome

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English

Etymology

From handle +‎ -some.

Adjective

handlesome (comparative more handlesome, superlative most handlesome)

  1. (rare) Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage
    • 1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, volume 68, pages 106-107:
      River navigation is a different thing to steering a motor-car on solid dry land. But a thirty horse-power launch, doing thirteen miles an hour, is a handlesome craft, and we soon left behind us.
    • 1937, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The horn: a lay of the Grassington fox-hounds, page 50:
      " [] Tom, you had better hunt the bitch pack,
      Dog hounds is none so handlesome []
    • 1948, Robert Faucett Gibbons, The Patchwork Time, page 20:
      She said: "So I sure got my hands full." Handful. To mean: handlesome. Fit to be handed from hand to hand. Hand me down my walkincane.

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