Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

handly

/hˈændli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English

Syllables: hand-ly
IPA: /hˈændli/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Synonym of handy.

adj

Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more."
"[…] Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris published a handly manual in off-set intitled Bibliography — International Migration of Manpower (1)."
"The Practical Guide for Italy, comprising the North and Central portions of the Peninsula has just been issued, and fully sustains the established character of the series. It is accompanied with a handly little map illustrative of the war."
"The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'."

Etymology

From Middle English handly, handliche; equivalent to hand + -ly. Compare German handlich (“handy, manageable”), Swedish handlig (“handy”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: handly
Suffix: hand

Usage

Obsolete

Synonyms

handy

Rhymes With

handley grandly blandly standley

Questions

How do you pronounce handly?: The recorded pronunciation is /hˈændli/.
What does handly mean?: Synonym of handy.
Where does handly come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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