"shovel-handed" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more shovel-handed [comparative], most shovel-handed [superlative]
Etymology: From shovel + handed. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|shovel|handed}} shovel + handed Head templates: {{en-adj}} shovel-handed (comparative more shovel-handed, superlative most shovel-handed)
  1. brawny and large, with connotations of being unintelligent, as one who is fit for digging ditches.
    Sense id: en-shovel-handed-en-adj-6eUXSP3S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "2011, Sophie Hardach, The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages, →ISBN:",
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          "ref": "2011, Richard Matheson, Steel: And Other Stories, →ISBN, page 153:",
          "text": "“Foaming moonstruck octopus! Shovel-handed ape!” The blood-laced eyes of Ruthlen Beauson bagged gibbously behind their horn-rimmed lenses.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2011, Gordon Burn, Best and Edwards, →ISBN, page 132:",
          "text": "They belonged to the shovel-handed goalkeeper whose size the first time he'd seen him had made him bolt for home, the Ulsterman and Munich survivor Harry Gregg.",
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