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Definition of cack-handed adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cack-handed

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