butterfingered

Signification (Anglais)

Prone to dropping things; clumsy.

Concepts

gaucher

maladroit

Synonymes

ham-handed

bungling

ham-fisted

bumbling

handless

heavy-handed

left-handed

unheppen

ungainly

unhandy

shambly

doplic

cumbersome

gormy

symphoric

Traductions

torpe

maldestre

matusser

graponer

klobig

onhandig

slungelachtig

paishon

atrapalhado

desengoçado

أخرق

desmañado

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.