ambidexter

== English == === Alternative forms === ambodexter (obsolete) === Etymology === Borrowed from Medieval Latin ambidexter, from Latin ambi- + dexter. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ambɪˈdɛkstə/ === Noun === ambidexter (plural ambidexters) Someone who is ambidextrous. Synonyms: (both informal) ambi, amby (archaic) A lawyer who takes fees from both plaintiff and defendant. (by extension) Someone who is two-faced; a double-dealer, such as a cheat or a crook. , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.65: One takes upon him temperence, holiness […], whenas indeed he, and he, and he, and the rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, outsides, so many turning pictures, a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. === Adjective === ambidexter (not comparable) Ambidextrous. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== ambidextrous === References === [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Ambidexter”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC. == Dutch == === Etymology === Ultimately from Latin ambidexter. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɑm.biˈdɛk.stər/ Rhymes: -ɛkstər Hyphenation: am‧bi‧dex‧ter === Adjective === ambidexter (used only predicatively, comparative meer ambidexter, superlative meest ambidexter) ambidexter