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English
Adjective
hornyhanded (comparative more hornyhanded, superlative most hornyhanded)
- Alternative form of horny-handed.
1953, Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., “The Farm Implements of the Homespun Age”, in The Golden Age of Homespun, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Fall Creek Books, Cornell University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 237:The pitchfork remains one of the hand tools that no invention can ever wholly replace, and I suppose that unborn generations of men will grow hornyhanded and weary in its use.
1983, Emile Guillaumin, chapter XLVII, in Margaret Crosland, transl., edited by Eugen Weber, The Life of a Simple Man, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 160:He was so fond of drink, that he would shamelessly accept the contemptuous hospitality of hornyhanded workmen.