left-handed
英 ['left'h?ndid]
美
- adj. 左撇的；用左手的；笨拙的
英英釋意
- 1. using or intended for the lefts hand;
- "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"
- "left-handed scissors"
- 2. (of marriages) illicit or informal;
- "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent"
- 3. (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
- 4. rotating to the left
- 5. ironically ambiguous;
- "a left-handed compliment"
- 6. not skillful in physical movement 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
