hornyhanded

comparative more hornyhanded · superlative most hornyhanded

1. alternativeAlternative form of horny-handed.

   He was so fond of drink, that he would shamelessly accept the contemptuous hospitality of hornyhanded workmen.

   1983, Emile Guillaumin, chapter XLVII, in Margaret Crosland, transl., edited by Eugen Weber, The Life of a Simple Man, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 160

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   The pitchfork remains one of the hand tools that no invention can ever wholly replace, and I suppose that unborn generations of men will grow hornyhanded and weary in its use.

   1953, Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., “The Farm Implements of the Homespun Age”, in The Golden Age of Homespun, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Fall Creek Books, Cornell University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 237