butterfingers
a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
Origin of butterfingers
1Other words from butterfingers
- but·ter·fin·gered, adjective
Words Nearby butterfingers
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How to use butterfingers in a sentence
What can one say of poor butterfingers Green who fumbled an easy first-half shot and so deprived England of a 1-0 win?
butterfingers was gone, she had got her a place in Somersetshire, so anxiety on that score was over.
Ask Momma | R. S. SurteesYou have just permitted the cleverest rascal in the state to slip through your butterfingers.
Hearts and Masks | Harold MacGrathAnd, as every boy in the world knows, it is a great disgrace to be called "butterfingers."
Half-Past Seven Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonThink of it—you may have to name the Champion butterfingers in 1915!
British Dictionary definitions for butterfingers
/ (ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəz) /
(functioning as singular) informal a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
Derived forms of butterfingers
- butterfingered, adjective
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