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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as horny-handed.

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Examples

  • Then Irma, safe in her married state, would set herself down by some shy, horny-fisted fellow, all nose and knuckles.

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

  • The world has lasted six thousand years now, and, with the exception of those at present alive, the millions who have breathed upon it -- splendid emperors, horny-fisted clowns, little children, in whom thought has never stirred -- _have_ died, and what they have done, we also shall be able to do.

    Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848

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