handlesome

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adjective

Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage

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Meanings

adjectivehandlesome (comparative more handlesome, superlative most handlesome)

comparative more handlesome · superlative most handlesome

  1. rareTypified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage

    "[…] Tom, you had better hunt the bitch pack, Dog hounds is none so handlesome […]

    1937, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The horn: a lay of the Grassington fox-hounds, page 50
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    River navigation is a different thing to steering a motor-car on solid dry land. But a thirty horse-power launch, doing thirteen miles an hour, is a handlesome craft, and we soon left behind us.

    1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, volume 68, pages 106–107

    She said: "So I sure got my hands full." Handful. To mean: handlesome. Fit to be handed from hand to hand. Hand me down my walkincane.

    1948, Robert Faucett Gibbons, The Patchwork Time, page 20

Origin

From handle + -some.

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APA

handlesome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handlesome

MLA

“handlesome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handlesome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “handlesome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handlesome.

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