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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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hundy
English
Etymology
Diminutive form of hundred with -y.
Pronunciation
Noun
hundy (plural hundies)
- (slang) hundred, especially 100 dollars
- 2003, Jason Boyett, Josh Hatcher, Cheap Ways To... (page 109)
- That's nine-hundy for just one class. Even state schools can't beat the rate your community college offers.
- 2004, Esquire (volume 141)
- […] learning to never have less than a hundy in my wallet […]
- 2013, Bruce Wagner, Still Holding
- Grady was sloshed and kept wanting to hire the affable men away (he kept slipping them hundies) to be personal bodyguards.
- 2003, Jason Boyett, Josh Hatcher, Cheap Ways To... (page 109)
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