Meaning of hamfist | Babel Free

Definitions

To handle crudely.

colloquial

Examples

“We had an open race and clocks were being read in the clubroom and I had the dubious pleasure of opening the clocks and taking out the ribbons, reckon I’d never make a clock ‘fixer’ the way I was hamfisting through the job, the old Toulets and Benzings were OK but it happened!!”

“Heyoka, dressed in outlandish masks, or sporting phallic false noses, proceeded to impede and obstruct the cooking, neglecting to singe off the dog’s hair, hamfisting the butchering.”

“Burikko refers to a girl who likes to act all cutesy or innocent, usually adult women who fawn on men affectedly and act like little girls. […] (There is no satisfactory English equivalent, and I don’t believe in hamfisting things just to seem like a ‘better translator’.[…])”

“It’s pretty seismic to just suddenly shift out to Charles III rather than Carolus. If the Royal Mint wants to have a discussion and say actually all coins need to be in English from now on, so be it. But don’t sort of hamfist [it] by putting the two and trying to fudge it.”

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