butterfingers
Meanings
Plural: butterfingers
Noun
- someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball)
- Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
- One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.
- A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.
Origin / Etymology
From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.
Synonyms
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