Huge wrote:
On 2008-11-11, The Medway Handyman
wrote:
Peter Scott wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
Lobster wrote:

left hand for bottom washing, right hand for eating?

Hence cack-handed.

I wonder if that is the origin? It makes sense. Do you know or are
you guessing?

It seems to be http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cac1.htm

This is the web site of Michael Quinion, an authority on such
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for his weekly digest. Saturday morning, 2 boiled eggs, world wide
words - sorted.

Fascinating. Thank you. As a "part American" with a fascination for
words, that site is going to waste many happy hours.

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