handsy

[hand-zee]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Informal.

tending to touch people with the hands, especially in an inappropriate or sexual way.
She saw that he was getting handsy with some of the female guests.
(in golf, baseball, etc.) characterized by excessive hand and wrist movement.
a handsy swing.

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Other Word Forms

handsiness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of handsy¹

First recorded in 1960–65; either hands ( def. ) + -y ¹ ( def. ), or hand ( def. ) + -sy ( def. )

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But there are plenty of others around the penthouse restaurant they’ve chosen for this outing: A shifty couple on a blind date, an overly sweet bartender, a handsy piano player and a skulking man who’s “waiting for his sister.”

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"I went downstairs to have a bit of a dance. Then he got a bit 'handsy' and a bit too close."

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Pearce had previously called Spacey "a handsy guy" in a 2018 interview.

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It comes after Pearce - one of the stars of the recent Bafta-winning film The Brutalist - this week expanded on his alleged experiences with the US actor having previously called him "a handsy guy" in 2018.

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Spacey - whose career was brought to a halt by a string of allegations - admitted to "being too handsy" and "pushing the boundaries", in an interview last year with Piers Morgan, while saying he'd not done anything illegal.

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hands up hand-tailor

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