HAND
(for ‘shake hands’, see HAND SHAKE)
ADJECTIVES
1300 — KAY — KEY of the hand or foot: left → Eng. dial.
1505 — FAIR-HANDED having beautiful, nicely-shaped, or fair-skinned hands
1576 — MANUARY pert. to the hand; performed by or with the hands → obs.
1656 — PALMAR belonging to the palm of the hand → obs.
1696 — PALMARY pert. to the palm of the hand
.M19 — HORN-FISTED having hard, calloused hands → nautical colloq.
1880 — MAEGSIE having large hands → Sc.
1890 — READY-HANDED clever with the hands, quick and ready → Sc.
1893 — QUOBBLED of a woman’s hands: shrivelled and wrinkled from being too long in the washtub → Eng. dial.
1898 — BETTER of the hand or foot: the right → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — ALL IN A QUOBBLE of a woman’s hands: shrivelled and wrinkled from being too long in the washtub → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1914 — ARMSTRONG used to describe anything that is operated by hand rather than by machinery → Amer. sl.
ADVERBS
1646 — SINISTROUSLY with a tendency to use the left hand in preference to the right; with the left hand
NOUNS
1000 — MUND a hand, a palm, esp. used as a measure of length → obs.
1300 — LOOF the palm of the hand → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1460 — DALLE the hand → obs.
1567 — FAMBLE a hand → sl.
1586 — GOLL a hand → obs.
1588 — TALON the grasping fingers or hands of humans
..E17 — GRAPPLER a hand → sl.
1605 — PAW the hand → sl.
1641 — NEIVE— NIEVE the fist, the closed hand; the hand → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1664 — MUTTON-FIST a large coarse red hand; a person having such hands → sl., obs., usually used in plural
1698 — FAM — FAMM — FEM — FEME a hand → sl.
1703 — GALLACK — GALLACK-HAND — GALLOCK-HAND the left hand → Eng. dial.
1703 — GAWK HAND the left hand → Eng. dial.
1725 — DADDLE a hand or fist → Eng. dial. & criminals’ sl.
1768 — ON-WYNE the left hand → Sc.
1773 — GARDIES the hands, esp. when put up in a posture to fight → Sc.
1780 — MAULEY— MAULIE — MAWLEY — MORLEY a fist, a hand → sl.
1790 — CAR-HAND the left hand → Eng. dial.
1790 — GAULISH-HAND the left hand → Eng. dial.
1791 — DAD a hand → US sl.
..L18 — DANDLE the hand → UK criminals sl.
..L18 — DUDDLE the hand → UK criminals sl.
..L18 — FIN an arm; a hand → nautical sl.
..L18 — PALETTE the hand → sl.
1820 — MAULER — MAWLER the hand; the fist → sl.
1821 — NIPPERS fingers or hands → US sl.
1825 — BUNCH OF FIVES the clenched fist; also, the hand → boxing sl.
1825 — GEG a cut or crack in the hands; a deep cut or wound → Sc.
1825 — MAIG — MAWLER a hand, generally a large ungainly one; a paw → Sc.
1833 — FLAPPER the hand → sl.
1833 — FLAPPER-SHAKER the hand → sl.
1833 — MANIPLE the hand
1848 — HEEL OF THE HAND the ball of the thumb or the back part of the inside of the hand → Eng. dial.
1848 — SOUTHPAW a person’s left hand → colloq.
1850 — MUD-HOOK the hand → sl.
.M19 — PADDLE the hand → sl.
.M19 — MARTIN-LE-GRAND — MARTIN’S — ST. MARTIN’S (LE GRAND) hand → rhyming sl.
.M19 — TOOLS the human hands → sl.
1853 — FLAPPER-SHAKING hand-shaking → sl.
1859 — DUKE the hand, the fist → sl.
1865 — DIDDLE-DANDERS the four fingers of the hand on the teats of a cow in the action of milking → Eng. dial.
1865 — GOWPEN the hollow of the hand, esp. of the two hands held together so as to form a bowl → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1870 — DAD(D)LER a hand → sl.
1874 — DOOK the hand or fist → sl.
1877 — SINISTERITY use of the left hand; skill in this
1882 — DOUBLE NEIVE the clenched hand → Eng. dial.
1884 — PAUT — PAWT a hand or foot, esp. a clumsy foot → Eng. dial.
1885 — AX-HOLDER a hand → Amer. sl.
1886 — DANNY — DONNY a child’s hand; used when speaking to children → Eng. dial.
1887 — KEY-PAW the left hand → Eng. dial.
1887 — MANUALIZATION the act of using the hands
1892 — DEW-CLAWS hands → Amer. dial.
1893 — MIT — MITT the hand → US sl.
1896 — LUNCH HOOK a hand or finger → Amer. dial.
1898 — BASH the palm of the hand → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — BATCH the palm of the hand → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — BEST HAND the right hand → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..L19 — LINCOLN’S INN a hand → Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘fin’
..20C — DARBIES hands → Brit. sl.
1900 — DANDY the hand; a child’s hand → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SCRAM-HAND a withered hand → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MAULS the hands; the fingers → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — PALM the hand → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — PASTIE the hand → Eng. dial. sl. (Bk.)
1905 — YARKEN — YARKIN the space between the forefinger and thumb; the hollow of the foot between the heel and great toe; the grasp of the hand → Sc. (Bk.)
1910 — LOOF the open hand, the palm of the hand → Ireland (Bk.)
1911 — BOW-HAN’ a fiddler; a fiddler’s right hand → Sc. (Bk.)
1912 — GOOSE-SKIN the wrinkled and colourless skin of the hands, caused by being long in water → Amer. dial.
1913 — HOOKS a man’s hands and arms → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1916 — PADDYWHACK the hand, esp. of a baby; chiefly used by little children → Amer. dial.
1919 — MEATHOOK the hand or fist; usually plural → Amer. sl.
1920 — PRAYER-DUKES the hands → African-American sl.
1920 — PRAYER-HANDLES the hands → African-American sl.
1920 — PUSSY GLOMMER a hand → Can. tramps’ sl.
1923 — GRUB HOOKS fingers or hands → Amer. sl.
1932 — BISCUIT HOOKS one’s hands → Amer. jocular usage
1938 — GLOM a hand → Amer. dial.
1942 — GRABBER a hand → Amer. sl.
1946 — GRABHOOK a hand → Amer. dial.
1947 — SKIN the hand → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1950 — HAM a hand → Amer. dial.
1958 — POTHOOK the hand → Amer. dial.
1960 — GLAUM a hand → Amer. dial.
1961 — PAN the palm of the hand → Amer. dial.
1966 — BREAD HOOKS one’s hands → Amer. dial.
1966 — BREAD SNATCHERS one’s hands → Amer. dial.
1966 — COTTON PICKER one’s hand → Amer. dial.
1966 — GLAM a hand → Amer. dial.
1966 — GLOMMER a hand → Amer. dial.
1967 — PEA PICKER one’s hand → Amer. dial.
1969 — CLAM DIGGERS the hands → Amer. dial. jocular usage
1970 — CRUMB SNATCHERS hands → Amer. dial.
1970 — PANEL the palm of the hand → Amer. dial. chiefly African-American
1970 — TIT SPANNERS the hands; not necessarily used in a sexual context → S. Aft. sl.
1971 — DICK-SKINNER the hand → US sl.
1992 — DARBY BANDS the hands → UK rhyming sl.
1992 — MARTINI the hand; the arm → Brit. sl.
1992 — RAMSGATE (SAND) the hand → UK rhyming sl.
1993 — CUNT-HOOKS the fingers; the hands → sl. (Bk.)
1993 — SHIT -HOOKS the fingers; the hands → sl. (Bk.)
1996 — CORNSTEALERS hands → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1999 — DOOKS the hands, the fists → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
2002 — DRY MARTINI the left hand → Brit. sl.
2002 — SWEET MARTINI the right hand → Brit. sl.
2003 — MADONNA CLAWS an ugly hand → UK homosexual sl.
2006 — HOOKS the hands → US sl. (Bk.)
2016 — ALICE BANDS hands → Cockney rhyming sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
1664 — MUTTON-FIST a large coarse red hand; a person having such hands → sl., obs.
1796 — HANDY a nickname for a person who has a maimed or missing hand → Sc.
1866 — MAEGSIE a person with large, flipper-like hands → Sc.
PHRASES
1785 — TIP US YOUR DADDLE give me your hand → sl.
VERBS
1796 — PALM — PAUM to squeeze the hand → Sc.
1857 — PALM — PAWM to rub the hands together → Eng. dial.
1883 — BEAT GOOSE to strike the hands under the armpits to warm them
1883 — BEAT THE BOOBY to strike the hands under the armpits to warm them → nautical
1900 — GAIG of the hands: to crack or chap → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — TICHEL to join hands; to make a line or string → Sc. (Bk.)
1942 — GIVE SOMEONE SOME SKIN to shake or slap hands together as a gesture of friendship or solidarity → Amer. sl.