cack-handed
adjective/ˌkæk ˈhændɪd/
/ˌkæk ˈhændɪd/
(British English, informal, disapproving)- a cack-handed person often drops or breaks things or does things badly synonym clumsyWord Originmid 19th cent.: from cack, in the sense ‘excrement’, + hand + -ed.
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