"handlesome" meaning in All languages combined

See handlesome on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more handlesome [comparative], most handlesome [superlative]
Etymology: From handle + -some. Etymology templates: {{af|en|handle|-some}} handle + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} handlesome (comparative more handlesome, superlative most handlesome)
  1. (rare) Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage Tags: rare
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "handle",
        "3": "-some"
      },
      "expansion": "handle + -some",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From handle + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more handlesome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most handlesome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "handlesome (comparative more handlesome, superlative most handlesome)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -some",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, volume 68, pages 106–107:",
          "text": "River navigation is a different thing to steering a motor-car on solid dry land. But a thirty horse-power launch, doing thirteen miles an hour, is a handlesome craft, and we soon left behind us.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The horn: a lay of the Grassington fox-hounds, page 50:",
          "text": "\"[…] Tom, you had better hunt the bitch pack,\nDog hounds is none so handlesome […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Robert Faucett Gibbons, The Patchwork Time, page 20:",
          "text": "She said: \"So I sure got my hands full.\" Handful. To mean: handlesome. Fit to be handed from hand to hand. Hand me down my walkincane.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage"
      ],
      "id": "en-handlesome-en-adj-f8Cvtdse",
      "links": [
        [
          "handling",
          "handling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "handlesome"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "handle",
        "3": "-some"
      },
      "expansion": "handle + -some",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From handle + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more handlesome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most handlesome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "handlesome (comparative more handlesome, superlative most handlesome)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -some",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, volume 68, pages 106–107:",
          "text": "River navigation is a different thing to steering a motor-car on solid dry land. But a thirty horse-power launch, doing thirteen miles an hour, is a handlesome craft, and we soon left behind us.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The horn: a lay of the Grassington fox-hounds, page 50:",
          "text": "\"[…] Tom, you had better hunt the bitch pack,\nDog hounds is none so handlesome […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Robert Faucett Gibbons, The Patchwork Time, page 20:",
          "text": "She said: \"So I sure got my hands full.\" Handful. To mean: handlesome. Fit to be handed from hand to hand. Hand me down my walkincane.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "handling",
          "handling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "handlesome"
}

Download raw JSONL data for handlesome meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.