毛手毛腳

毛手毛脚
máoshǒumáojiǎo
  1. carelessly and haphazardly
  2. to paw
  3. to grope
  4. to get fresh

CEDICT

  1. to be careless (in handling things)
  2. to take liberties (with women); to paw; to fondle

Wiktionary

  1. 做事粗率慌張，不仔細。《三俠五義．第七六回》：「大老爺只管放心。就是跟隨小人們當差之人，俱是小人們訓練出來的。但凡有點毛手毛腳的，小人決不用他。」《老殘遊記．第一回》：「若遇風平浪靜的時候，他駕駛的情狀，亦有操縱自如之妙；不意今日遇見這大風浪，所以都毛手毛腳。」也作「毛腳毛手」。
  2. 動手動腳。多指男女間輕浮的行為。

重編國語辭典

  1. 做事粗率慌張
  2. 對他人輕浮、騷擾的行為

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 毛 máo
  1. hair
  2. feather
  3. down
  4. wool
  5. mildew
  6. mold
  7. coarse or semifinished
  8. young
  9. raw
  10. careless
  11. unthinking
  12. nervous
  13. scared
  14. (of currency) to devalue or depreciate
  15. classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 jiǎo , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分 fēn)
2 手 shǒu
  1. hand
  2. (formal) to hold
  3. person engaged in certain types of work
  4. person skilled in certain types of work
  5. personal(ly)
  6. convenient
  7. classifier for skill

classifiers: 雙, 隻
3 毛 máo
  1. hair
  2. feather
  3. down
  4. wool
  5. mildew
  6. mold
  7. coarse or semifinished
  8. young
  9. raw
  10. careless
  11. unthinking
  12. nervous
  13. scared
  14. (of currency) to devalue or depreciate
  15. classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 jiǎo , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分 fēn)
4 腳 jiǎo
  1. foot
  2. leg (of an animal or an object)
  3. base (of an object)
  4. classifier for kicks

classifiers: 雙, 隻

Related entries

跑 páo (of an animal) to paw (the ground)
跑啊！

Run!

Source: Tatoeba

動手動腳 dòngshǒudòngjiǎo
  1. to come to blows
  2. to paw
  3. to grope
  4. to get fresh
探摸 tànmō
  1. to feel for sth
  2. to grope
摸 mō
  1. to feel with the hand
  2. to touch
  3. to stroke
  4. to grope
  5. to steal
  6. to abstract
孩子摸着猫。

The child pets the cat.

Source: Tatoeba