either-handed

English

Etymology

From either +‎ handed.

Adjective

either-handed (not comparable)

  1. Able to use either (right or left) hand, often equally well; ambidextrous.
    • 1879, Browne's Phonographic Monthly (volume 4, page 231)
      There certainly is, amongst mankind, a vast weight of opinion against my position that man is, by nature, as either-handed as an ape, and that custom should follow nature.

Derived terms
  • either-handedness
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