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Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: English dialect cack, keck awkward Date: 1854 1. British left-handed 1 2. British clumsy, awkward

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. colloq. 1 awkward, clumsy. 2 left-handed. Derivatives: cack-handedly adv. cack-handedness n. Etymology: dial. cack excrement

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as cack-handed, you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way. (BRIT INFORMAL) ...the cack-handed way they handled the incident. = clumsy ADJ [disapproval]