English Explanatory Dictionary

shovel-handed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. brawny and large, with connotations of being unintelligent, as one who is fit for digging ditches.

Word forms

shovel-handed more shovel-handed most shovel-handed

Etymology

From shovel + handed.

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