Meaning of handlesome | Babel Free

Definitions

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

rare

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

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