very unskillful; extremely awkward; terrible at
Colloquial and emphatic; ド is an intensifying prefix. Often used self-deprecatingly or in casual criticism.
See also: ど
I'm terrible at cooking.
His drawings are really clumsy, but they have character.
Standard spelling with katakana ド for emphasis.
Hiragana variant; less common but still used.
Formed from the emphatic prefix ど-, meaning “very” or “utterly,” and 下手 “unskilled.”