Definitions
1.AdjectiveHaving equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
2.Adjective↑ The Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989) lists the ligated spelling (ambilævous) as the primary form, with the monographical spelling (ambilevous) listed as secondary.
3.Adjective1 2 Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “ambidextrous”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
4.Adjective↑ Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
5.Adjective↑ On page 35 of Left-handedness: Laterality Characteristics and Their Educational Implications (University of London Press, 1957) by Margaret MacDonald Clark, it is asserted that “In describing these cases, Galen (quoted by Orton) coined the word ‘ambilevous’, to imply having two left hands, to exclude the idea of skill connoted by the term ‘ambidextrous’.”; however the said Ancient Greek root term ἀμφαρίστερος (ampharísteros) also occurs in a fragment of a non-surviving play by the dramatist Aristophanes (who lived circa 456–386 B.C.E. — around six hundred years before Galen of Pergamon (circa 129–200 C.E.)), so Galen cannot have been its coiner.
6.Adjective1 2 “ambilævous, -levous” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
7.Adjective↑ 1996: Marjorie B. Garber, Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, page 284 (Simon & Schuster; →ISBN, 9780684803081)