Etymology

car-handed

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Scottish Gaelic caerr
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromcaerr“awkward”
  2. English todaycar-handed

Northern and Scottish dialects from Scottish Gaelic caerr (“awkward”) + handed.

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