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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
brawny and large, with connotations of being unintelligent, as one who is fit for digging ditches..
I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzaroni at all.
There was his cousin, Sivan, the once shy boy who had grown as bulky as his shovel-handed father and then some more, and had learned to use his body efficiently with the help of the local kick-boxing club.
“Foaming moonstruck octopus! Shovel-handed ape!” The blood-laced eyes of Ruthlen Beauson bagged gibbously behind their horn-rimmed lenses.
They belonged to the shovel-handed goalkeeper whose size the first time he'd seen him had made him bolt for home, the Ulsterman and Munich survivor Harry Gregg.
Use shovel-handed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shovel-handed means brawny and large, with connotations of being unintelligent, as one who is fit for digging ditches..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzaroni at all.
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