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

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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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Example Sentences

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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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