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Dutch
Etymology
hand + gemeen
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eːn
- Hyphenation: hand‧ge‧meen
Adjective
handgemeen (not comparable)
- involved in a fight
1965, Charles Verlinden, Het ontstaan van de Atlantische beschaving: van Renaissance tot verlichting, E. Story-Scientia, page 479:Nauwelijks was de vrede van Aken (1748) getekend, of Spanjaarden en Portugezen raakten handgemeen in Zuid-Amerika.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
Occurs in current use only as the complement of a copular verb such as raken, worden en zijn.
Synonyms
Noun
handgemeen n (plural handgemenen, diminutive handgemeentje n)
- scuffle (fight)
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