English Explanatory Dictionary

lily-handed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.
  2. Having hands that are white due to lack of outdoor work; Unaccustomed to physical labor.
  3. Fastidious and foppish.

Word forms

lily-handed more lily-handed most lily-handed lilyhanded

Etymology

From lily + handed, from the white color and delicacy of a lily.

Synonyms

ethereal white-handed soft-handed uncalloused dainty dandy anal-retentive choosy conscientious exacting fastidious finical finicking finickity finicky finikin fussy hypercritical lily-handed meticulous niggly nitpickish nit-picky nitty overcritical overscrupulous particular pedantic pernickety persnickety picky beauish buckish coxcombical dandiacal dandified dandyish dandyistic dudish foppish foppy Jemmy-Jessamy macaronic swellish Woosterian
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