English Explanatory Dictionary

one-handed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having only one hand.
  2. Performed using only one hand.
  3. Designed for use with one hand
  4. Pornographic in nature.
  5. That uses one hand.
  6. Involving the actions of only one person.
  7. Chiral, having an asymmetric structural orientation.
adv
  1. Using only one hand; one-handedly.
  2. While masturbating.
  3. Very easily, without effort.

Word forms

one-handed onehanded

Etymology

From Middle English on-handed, variant of Middle English on-hande, onehand, from Old English ānhende (“one-handed”). By surface analysis, one + handed. Compare German einhändig (“one-handed”), Swedish enhänt, en-handad (“one-handed”), Icelandic einn-hönd (“one-handed”).

Derived words

one-handedness

Translations

Bulgarian: еднорък Bulgarian: за една ръка Catalan: manc French: manchot Galician: toco Galician: manco Galician: coto Hebrew: גידם Hungarian: félkezű Icelandic: einhentur Irish: leathláimhe Irish: leathlámhach Italian: con una mano Latin: ūnimanus Old English: ānhende Polish: jednoręki Portuguese: maneta Spanish: manco Swedish: enhänt Swedish: enhands- Ottoman Turkish: چولاق Ottoman Turkish: قولاق German: einhändig
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