Careful Words

handy (n.)

handy (v.)

handy (adj.)

  A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6.