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butterfinger

noun

Etymology

Clipping of butterfingers.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things

    Synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated”).

    • You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles. You butter-finger, can't you stop anything?

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