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handy
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English handy, hondi (attested in personal names), alteration of earlier hendi (“handy, skillful”), from Old English hendi? (“skillful”) (as in listhendi? (“skilled in art”)), from Proto-Germanic *handugaz (“handy, skillful, nimble”), from *handuz (“hand”), equivalent to hand +? -y. Cognate with Middle Low German handich (“skillful, apt”), Middle High German handec, hendec (“manual, hand-held”), Old Norse h?ndugr (“efficient”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (handugs, “wise, clever”). Akin to Dutch handig (“handy”), Norwegian hendig (“handy”), Swedish händig (“handy”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?n'di, IPA(key): /?hæn.di/
- Rhymes: -ændi
Adjective
handy (comparative handier, superlative handiest)
- Easy to use, useful.
- Nearby, within reach.
- Synonym: at hand
- Of a person: dexterous, skilful.
- Synonym: crafty
- (slang) Physically violent; tending to use one's fists.
- Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
Derived terms
- handily
- handiness
- unhandy
Antonyms
- awkward
Translations
References
- handy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- handy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- handy at OneLook Dictionary Search
Etymology 2
hand +? -y (“diminutive suffix”)
Noun
handy (plural handies)
- (vulgar, slang) A hand job.
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of handgun +? -y (“diminutive suffix”)
Noun
handy (plural handies)
- (MLE, slang) A handgun.
Translations
Anagrams
- Haydn
Scots
Adjective
handy (comparative handier, superlative handiest)
- handy
- dexterous, skilful
- amenable (of an animal)
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handling
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hændl???/, /?hændl??/
- Hyphenation: hand?ling
Etymology 1
From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).
Noun
handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)
- A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
- 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
- […] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
- 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
- (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
- A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
Derived terms
- double-handling
- request-handling
Related terms
- handling charge
- handling fee
Translations
Etymology 2
From handle.
Verb
handling
- present participle of handle
Danish
Noun
handling
- action, act
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From handle +? -ing
Noun
handling f or m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)
- an act, deed
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Derived terms
- terrorhandling
- voldshandling
References
- “handling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From handle +? -ing
Noun
handling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)
- an act, deed
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Derived terms
- terrorhandling
- valdshandling
References
- “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
handla +? -ing
Pronunciation
Noun
handling c
- an act, a deed
- an act, a document
- action
- the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
- shopping; the action of visiting shops
Declension
Derived terms
- terrorhandling
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