butterfingered

Betekenis (Engels)

Prone to dropping things; clumsy.

Sinonieme

ham-handed

bungling

ham-fisted

bumbling

handless

heavy-handed

left-handed

unheppen

ungainly

unhandy

shambly

doplic

cumbersome

gormy

symphoric

Vertalings

torpe

maldestre

matusser

graponer

klobig

gaucher

maladroit

onhandig

slungelachtig

paishon

atrapalhado

desengoçado

أخرق

desmañado

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəd/

Etimologie (Engels)

From butter + fingered (“having fingers (of the specified kind)”), an allusion to people tending to drop things because their hands are so slippery that they seem to be covered in butter.