fast-handed

English

adj

Definitions

With hands that move very quickly.
Highly efficient at improvisation.
Sexually aggressive.
(obsolete) Greedy, miserly.

Etymology

Compound from English fast (fixed, refrain from eating, a period of fasting, firm, quick, fixed firmly, quickly) + English handed.

Origin

English

handed

Gloss

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

ambi-handed English
barefast English
barehanded English
bloody-handed English
both-handed English
breakfast English
breastfast English
broken-handed English
brokenhanded English
cack-handed English
chairfast English
close-handed English
closehanded English
coarse-handed English
coarsehanded English
colorfast English
colourfast English
cragfast English
cross-handed English
cross-handedness English
crosshanded English
dead-handed English
deadhanded English
deft-handed English
defthanded English
dirty-handed English
doublehanded English
dry-handed English
earthfast English
either-handed English
emptyhanded English
evenhanded English
fair-handed English
fairhanded English
fast English
fast-paced English
fastcore English
fasten English
faster English
fastest English
fasteth English
fastgang English
fastgrowing English
fastish English
fastly English
fastness English
fastpitch English
fastwalker English
fourhanded English
freehanded English
full-handed English
gentle-handed English
gouty-handed English
handed English
handedly English
handedness English
hardhanded English
headfast English
holdfast English
horny-handed English
hyperfast English
ironhanded English
landfast English
large-handed English
left-handed English
lefthanded English
level-handed English
lightfast English
lily-handed English
lockfast English
loose-handed English
makefast English
many-handed English
masterfast English
nailfast English
naked-handed English
neat-handed English
nonfast English
numb-handed English
offhanded English
one-handed English
open-handed English
outfast English
overfast English
overhanded English
rainfast English
ready-handed English
red-handed English
right-handed English
secondhanded English
semi-fast English
serofast English
setfast English
shamefaced English
shamefast English
shorthanded English
shovel-handed English
side-handed English
sitfast English
slack-handed English
spade-handed English
steadfast English
steady-handed English
sternfast English
strait-handed English
strong-handed English
sunfast English
superfast English
sure-handed English
swift-handed English
tender-handed English
toom-handed English
tub-fast English
tubfast English
two-handed English
ultra-fast English
ultrafast English
underhanded English
unfast English
uphanded English
washfast English
weak-handed English
wetfast English
white-handed English
wide-handed English
fast Middle English
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