Handly vs Handful - What's the difference?
handly | handful |
Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
* 1921 , Peter George Mode, Source book and bibliographical guide for American church history :
* 1971 , World justice: Volume 12:
* 2009 , Philip Durkin, The Oxford guide to etymology :
Handy; manageable.
* 1859 , The Spectator: Volume 32:
The amount that a hand will grasp or contain.
:(Joseph Addison)
(obsolete) A hand's breadth; four inches.
A small quantity, usually approximately equal to five.
Something which can only be managed with difficulty.
As an adjective handly
is of or pertaining to the hand; manual.As a noun handful is
the amount that a hand will grasp or contain.handly
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Adjective
(en-adj)- George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more.
- [...] Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris published a handly manual in off -set intitled Bibliography — International Migration of Manpower (1).
- The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'.
- The Practical Guide for Italy, comprising the North and Central portions of the Peninsula has just been issued, and fully sustains the established character of the series. It is accompanied with a handly little map illustrative of the war.
handful
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Alternative forms
* handfull (archaic)Noun
(en-noun)- ''Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. -
- ''This handful of men were tied to very hard duty. - Fuller
- ''Those twins are a real handful to look after.