See also: carhanded Etymology Northern and Scottish dialects from Scottish Gaelic caerr (“awkward”) + handed. Adjective car-handed (not comparable) (Scotland) Left-handed. 2006, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Alan Tuffery, Words We Use, page 19:Farm labourers are apt to turn back from their work and go to bed on meeting a car-handed neighbour, he says.