| 单词 |
handicuff |
| 释义 |
▪ I. handicuff Also handy-. [f. hand n. or handy a. + cuff n.2: app. after fisticuff.] pl. Blows with the hands; fighting hand to hand. Also fig.
1701Dial. betw. Marphorio & Pasquin 12 By the Posture you are in, I suppose you are for handy-Cuffs. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World (1757) 271 [They] must have gone to handy cuffs with the enemy. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xxi, His rhetoric and conduct were at perpetual handy-cuffs. 1816C. James Milit. Dict. (ed. 4) 383/2 Jeux de main, manual play, or what are vulgarly called handicuffs. ▪ II. handicuff dial. var. of handcuff. |

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