お手てつき

noun

touching a wrong card (in karuta); foul (in competitive karuta)

In competitive karuta, a foul for touching a card outside the correct territory; also used for buzzing too early in quiz games. Sense 3 is the technical karuta foul definition.

• お手てつきをして、相あい手てに札ふだを取とられてしまった。

  I touched the wrong card and had my card taken by the opponent.

• クイズ番ばん組ぐみでお手てつきをすると、解かい答とう権けんを失うしないます。

  If you buzz in too early on a quiz show, you lose the right to answer.

noun

making a servant one's mistress; mistress who is a servant

Dated term for taking a female servant as a mistress, or the mistress herself. Rare in modern usage.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの文ぶん献けんには、お手てつきという言こと葉ばが女じょ中ちゅうを妾めかけにする意い味みで出でてくる。

  In Edo-period documents, the word お手つき appears with the meaning of making a maid one's mistress.