"large-handed" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "large + handed",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "more large-handed",
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      "form": "most large-handed",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Diana Marcellas, Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea",
          "text": "(Much luck Natalie will have, with those freckles), Margot thought, her spite laced with a slipping envy, knowing herself too squat and large-handed to compete with the prettier women like Natalie, freckles or not.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1870, Auguste Demmin, Weapons of War, page 153",
          "text": "Burgundian sword in iron, about 3 feet 3 inches in length, imluding the. haft, which is very long, and proves that it must have been used by a robust and large-handed race.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.",
          "text": "He is a poor wretch, with a little thin fishy blood in his body, lean and flat, long-armed and large-handed, thick-jointed and thin-muscled -- you know those unwholesome, weak-eyed, half-fed creatures, that look not fit to be round among live folks, and yet not quite dead enough to bury.",
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        "Having hands that are large."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "s golemi rǎce",
          "sense": "Having hands that are large",
          "word": "с големи ръце"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "1849 July, Comte De Tocqueville, “Histoire Philosophique du Règne de Louis XV”, in Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, page 50",
          "text": "At the instigation of Colbert, whose rigid honesty was scandalised by Fouquet's large-handed and prodigal corruption, Louis determined to curb these soaring aspirations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations",
          "text": "Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1882, Henry James Coleridge, The Ministry of Saint John Baptist",
          "text": "God loves a cheerful large-handed giver, and He is Himself the model and pattern of magnificence in giving.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spending or giving in large quantities; generous or spendthrift."
      ],
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          "giving",
          "give"
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          "quantities",
          "quantity"
        ],
        [
          "generous",
          "generous"
        ],
        [
          "spendthrift",
          "spendthrift"
        ]
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "8 91 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "štedǎr",
          "sense": "Spending or giving in large",
          "word": "щедър"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 91 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "obilen",
          "sense": "Spending or giving in large",
          "word": "обилен"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1623, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens",
          "text": "Bound servants, steal! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Emerson Hough, The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West, page 34",
          "text": "It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Olga Goriunova, Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing, page 202",
          "text": "The critical players are not the consumers of Monopoly (enjoying the fun of playing large-handed capitalists), but the Georgists and Quakers making the game.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Greedy, rapacious."
      ],
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          "Greedy",
          "greedy"
        ],
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          "rapacious",
          "rapacious"
        ]
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  "word": "large-handed"
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    "English compound terms",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "large + handed",
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      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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          "ref": "2014, Diana Marcellas, Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea",
          "text": "(Much luck Natalie will have, with those freckles), Margot thought, her spite laced with a slipping envy, knowing herself too squat and large-handed to compete with the prettier women like Natalie, freckles or not.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1870, Auguste Demmin, Weapons of War, page 153",
          "text": "Burgundian sword in iron, about 3 feet 3 inches in length, imluding the. haft, which is very long, and proves that it must have been used by a robust and large-handed race.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.",
          "text": "He is a poor wretch, with a little thin fishy blood in his body, lean and flat, long-armed and large-handed, thick-jointed and thin-muscled -- you know those unwholesome, weak-eyed, half-fed creatures, that look not fit to be round among live folks, and yet not quite dead enough to bury.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having hands that are large."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1849 July, Comte De Tocqueville, “Histoire Philosophique du Règne de Louis XV”, in Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, page 50",
          "text": "At the instigation of Colbert, whose rigid honesty was scandalised by Fouquet's large-handed and prodigal corruption, Louis determined to curb these soaring aspirations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations",
          "text": "Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1882, Henry James Coleridge, The Ministry of Saint John Baptist",
          "text": "God loves a cheerful large-handed giver, and He is Himself the model and pattern of magnificence in giving.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spending or giving in large quantities; generous or spendthrift."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Spending",
          "spend"
        ],
        [
          "giving",
          "give"
        ],
        [
          "quantities",
          "quantity"
        ],
        [
          "generous",
          "generous"
        ],
        [
          "spendthrift",
          "spendthrift"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1623, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens",
          "text": "Bound servants, steal! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Emerson Hough, The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West, page 34",
          "text": "It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Olga Goriunova, Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing, page 202",
          "text": "The critical players are not the consumers of Monopoly (enjoying the fun of playing large-handed capitalists), but the Georgists and Quakers making the game.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Greedy, rapacious."
      ],
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        [
          "Greedy",
          "greedy"
        ],
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          "rapacious",
          "rapacious"
        ]
      ]
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "s golemi rǎce",
      "sense": "Having hands that are large",
      "word": "с големи ръце"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "štedǎr",
      "sense": "Spending or giving in large",
      "word": "щедър"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obilen",
      "sense": "Spending or giving in large",
      "word": "обилен"
    }
  ],
  "word": "large-handed"
}