toom-handed
(Scotland, dialect) Emptyhanded.
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(Scotland, dialect) Emptyhanded.
I wis he had na been so headstrong ; but it's a' his ain fault : howsever, it would na be canny to gang toom-handed, and I hae got a bit bill for five score pounds that I'm mindit to gie him.
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