handy
/ˈhæn.di/ adjetivo B1En español: práctico, hábil, a mano, cerca
- Easy to use, useful. · Some people regard duct tape as a handy fix-all.
- Nearby, within reach. · You wouldn’t have a screwdriver handy, would you?· I keep a first-aid kit handy in case of emergency.
- Dexterous, skilful. (of a person) · She's very handy: she made all her own kitchen cupboards.
- Physically violent; tending to use one's fists.
- Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.
Comparativo handier · Superlativo handiest
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Marvellous places, though handy to home!
I was a strollin’ down, thinkin’ between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.
Hammond from up the river came down and said she’d take me, seeing I was handy with children, and I went up the river to live with her in a little clearing among the stumps.
“Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, for the business has not been over good for some years, and an extra couple of hundred would have been very handy.
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