Shovel Hands Edit Meaning

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Shovel Hands is a derrogatory name given to a person (usually male) with notably large and indelicate hands. Shovel Hands is the opposite of Piano Hands...which is only used to describe those with large, but delicate, hands.

Shovel Hands could, for example, be used to describe the hands of Lennie in Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'

See mitts, paws, diggers