different between handless vs handlest

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hændl?s/

Etymology 1

From Middle English handles, from Old English *handl?as, from Proto-Germanic *handulausaz (“handless”), equivalent to hand +? -less. Cognate with West Frisian hânleas (“handless”), German handlos (“handless”), Icelandic handlauss (“handless”).

Adjective

handless (comparative more handless, superlative most handless)

1. Without a hand.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 5, scene 5:

     Together with his mangled Myrmidons, That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him

2. (obsolete) Not handy; awkward.
   • 1891, Dugald Ferguson, Vicissitudes of Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand (page 55)

     This, however, was a thing that, left to himself, would have simply rendered Bill Lampiere a most handless workman at everything he attempted.

Translations

Etymology 2

From handleless, by haplology, under the influence of etymology 1 above.

Adjective

handless (not comparable)

1. Without a handle.
   • 1836, The Metropolitan, Volume 15, page 148:

     One battered, spoutless, handless, japanned-in jug, that did not contain water, for it leaked.

   • 2003, Manners... More than Etiquette, page 91:

     Chinese soup is sipped in a handless cup (Chinese soup bowl) with its own soupspoon.

Translations

Anagrams

• handsels

English

Etymology

handle +? -est

Verb

handlest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of handle

Anagrams

• Shetland, shetland

German

Pronunciation

Verb

handlest

1. second-person singular subjunctive I of handeln