Welcome to another exciting installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! The countdown has started -- only five more days until school starts up again, so this would be a good time to warm up your brain with the Word of the Week in preparation for all of that mental exercise you may soon be getting:
Antidextrous: Lacking dexterity in either hand. -- "Urban Dictionary", Aaron Peckham, Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, Kansas City, 2005.
Example: Unhappily, I have the great misfortune of being rather antidextrous. While this is very much to the amusement of my fellow librarians, it has also resulted over the years in a regrettable number of what might best be termed "book avalanches" in the stacks.
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