butterfingers
noun/ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəz/UK/ˈbʌtɚˌfɪŋɡɚz/US
Etymology
From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.
Definitions
Someone who tends to drop things
Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
- I am such a butterfingers. That’s the third drink I’ve spilled today.
One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.
- “I guess everyone’s got butterfingers around here,” Cole said with a sly smile. “Lucky for us, I’ve got fast reflexes.”
- “That boy’s got butterfingers,” Connor went on. “That’s twice he’s dropped a tool. He’s got no place on a construction site.”
A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.
The neighborhood
- neighborbutterfingered
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for butterfingers. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA