"handlesome" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From handle + -some.",
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      "form": "more handlesome",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "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.",
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        {
          "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 […]",
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        {
          "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.",
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        "Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage"
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        "(rare) Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage"
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  "word": "handlesome"
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  "etymology_text": "From handle + -some.",
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    {
      "form": "most handlesome",
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        "superlative"
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