See also: Hendy

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hendy (comparative more hendy, superlative most hendy)

  1. Obsolete or dialectal form of handy
    • 1893, F. E. Marshall Steele, The Encore Reciter: Humorous Serious and Dramatic Selections:
      One way or t'other hendiest is
      To ketch the people nappin'; []
    • 1896, James Russell Lowell, Complete Poetical Works, page 213:
      The hendier 't is for Guv'ment, sence it henders trouble brewin'; []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hendy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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