“Cack-handed, kak’-, (slang) adj. left-handed: clumsy” (Chambers, c1976). Kate – abbreviation of various names originating “from Gr. Aikaterine, unknown origin, later assimilated tokatharos, pure.” (Chambers)
“A cack-handed Kate” – A clumsy person (Hertfordshire and probably other places). Left-handed – yes; clumsy – yes; and with a name that can be abbreviated to Kate and has been for almost my whole adult life so far – yesI am indeed the pure Cack-handed Kate.
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Cack-handed Kate 
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