handless
/ˈhændləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without a handle.
Example Sentences
- "Together with his mangled Myrmidons, That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him"
- "We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should."
- "This, however, was a thing that, left to himself, would have simply rendered Bill Lampiere a most handless workman at everything he attempted."
- "She gave him a few coppers from the handless jug."
- "One battered, spoutless, handless, japanned-in jug, that did not contain water, for it leaked."
- "Chinese soup is sipped in a handless cup (Chinese soup bowl) with its own soupspoon."
Etymology
From Middle English handles, from Old English *handlēas, from Proto-Germanic *handulausaz (“handless”), equivalent to hand + -less. Cognate with West Frisian hânleas (“handless”), German handlos (“handless”), Icelandic handlauss (“handless”).
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.
Inflected Forms
more handless (comparative)
most handless (superlative)