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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010The word for one-handed as opposed to ambidextrous
Dear Everyone: We have the words "left-handed", "right-handed" and "ambidextrous". Is there a word for "one-handed" that has the same word-formation as "ambidextrous"? Is "monodextrous" the word? Thank you for reading and replying! --Roland In message <2b6d24ae-52ef-4c56-992a-5bcd82abfd08@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, qquito <qquito@hotmail.com> writes >Dear Everyone: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Thank you for reading and replying! It's "unidextrous", isn't it? <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unidexter> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty68LPKRQQQ&feature=related>  SignatureIan Ian wrote on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:35:57 +0000: > In message > <2b6d24ae-52ef-4c56-992a-5bcd82abfd08@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unidexter> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty68LPKRQQQ&feature=related> But what happens if you are left-handed: unisinistrous perhaps? SignatureJames Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not >But what happens if you are left-handed: unisinistrous perhaps? "obligate sinister". -GAWollman SignatureGarrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft wollman@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993 Garrett wrote on Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:43:06 +0000 (UTC): >> But what happens if you are left-handed: unisinistrous perhaps? > "obligate sinister". > -GAWollman It is interesting that most meanings of "sinistrous", including "left-handed" are labelled Obs. in the OED. About the only reference that is not obsolete is "betokening or attended with misfortune or disaster; ill-omened, inauspicious, unlucky; baleful, malign, etc." It is also equated to "sinistral" meaning "with eyes to the left" as in some flat fish. SignatureJames Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not > Garrett wrote on Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:43:06 +0000 (UTC): > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > It is also equated to "sinistral" meaning "with eyes to the left" as in > some flat fish. And in those on the lookout for specters haunting Europe, presumably. SignatureRoland Hutchinson He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba," ... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy. --Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ ) > Ian wrote on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:35:57 +0000: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > But what happens if you are left-handed: unisinistrous perhaps? And what happens if you've got two left feet? SignatureJames >> Ian wrote on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:35:57 +0000: >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > And what happens if you've got two left feet? It becomes difficult to ride a blike. >> And what happens if you've got two left feet? >> >It becomes difficult to ride a blike. Don't you mean a "bike"? A blike is a bike designed for people with two left feet. It would make it hard to ballroom dance since you wouldn't know which foot to start on. And you can forget about being in the army and marching... Signature************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * >>> And what happens if you've got two left feet? >>> >>It becomes difficult to ride a blike. > > Don't you mean a "bike"? A blike is a bike designed for people > with two left feet. Yes I do. That's the problem with typing on a netbook wiitth vweryu smmnalkk keyss. Fred filted: >>>> And what happens if you've got two left feet? >>>> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Yes I do. That's the problem with typing on a netbook wiitth vweryu smmnalkk >keyss. You might find something like this useful: http://lespacekwt.com/gifts/comp-accessories/flexible-keyboard.jpg ....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? > Fred filted: >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > http://lespacekwt.com/gifts/comp-accessories/flexible-keyboard.jpg It's the wrong shape for my fingers. James Hogg filted: >And what happens if you've got two left feet? Each of the half-dozen cats sleeping on my patio right now has two left feet, and they're quite graceful....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? >> But what happens if you are left-handed: unisinistrous perhaps? > > And what happens if you've got two left feet? See the Smothers Brothers, "The Last Great Waltz". SignatureTwo of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. [anonymous] > In message > <2b6d24ae-52ef-4c56-992a-5bcd82abfd08@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> > It's "unidextrous", isn't it? "Unidextrous" gets 288 Google Books hits, going back to 1901[1] but it appears to be contrastive to "ambidextrous". That is, prefering one hand. Reference to this table and chart shows us that children on the average are unidextrous, with the right hand superior at the time they enter school and that the unidexterity increases, especially during the adolescent period. ... Nor is unidexterity a recent development. The most ancient writings contain statements that men were unidextrous. In many languages the left hand is referred to by some title which originally was opprobrious in its signification, as, clumsy, foolish, unlucky, etc. The ancients in their drawings were prone to turn the profile of the human face to the left, the easiest position for the right-handed artist. All of this goes to show that the unidextrous condition is the normal condition for most individuals. [1] One copy of this claims, erroneously, to be 1898. SignatureEvan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------ HP Laboratories |Any programming problem can be 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 |solved by adding another layer of Palo Alto, CA 94304 |indirection. Any performance |problem can be solved by removing kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com |one. (650)857-7572 http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ >In message ><2b6d24ae-52ef-4c56-992a-5bcd82abfd08@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>there a word for "one-handed" that has the same word-formation as >>"ambidextrous"? Is "monodextrous" the word? Amputee. SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida > Dear Everyone: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Thank you for reading and replying! Monomaniac? -- Jerry Friedman > We have the words "left-handed", "right-handed" and "ambidextrous". Is > there a word for "one-handed" that has the same word-formation as > "ambidextrous"? Is "monodextrous" the word? While it may not suit your context, we also have the adjective single-handed. SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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