Definition of "ambidexter" in Englisch

noun

1. Someone who is ambidextrous.

2. (archaic) A lawyer who takes fees from both plaintiff and defendant.

3. (by extension) Someone who is two-faced; a double-dealer, such as a cheat or a crook.

   • 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

1. Ambidextrous.