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English
Etymology
From handle + -some.
Adjective
handlesome (comparative more handlesome, superlative most handlesome)
- (rare) Typified by, or requiring handling; (by extension) difficult to manage
1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, volume 68, pages 106–107: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.
1937, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The horn: a lay of the Grassington fox-hounds, page 50:" […] Tom, you had better hunt the bitch pack,
Dog hounds is none so handlesome […]
1948, Robert Faucett Gibbons, The Patchwork Time, page 20: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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