palmed

[ pahmd ]

adjective

1. having a palm or palms palm of a specified kind (often used in combination):

   a wide-palmed hand.

Word History and Origins

Origin of palmed¹

1350–1400; Middle English. See palm ¹, -ed ³

Example Sentences

Handbags can be security blankets for the most powerful women–held close even when they could be palmed off on a chorus of aides.

From The Daily Beast

Fifteen cents is the price, and many are palmed off on the unwise for the real imported article.

From Project Gutenberg

It was not a written law of Ezra which the priests palmed off as the written law of Moses.

From Project Gutenberg

The heir that fate had palmed upon him might very well be doomed to go the way so many infants went!

From Project Gutenberg

He cut a slice of Schnitz-pie and palmed it against the bull's big snout to be snuffled up.

From Project Gutenberg

Only Mr. Narkom, used to the ways of his famous associate, saw that he had "palmed" it into his pocket.

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