butterfingered
Meaning
Prone to dropping things; clumsy.
Synonyms
Translations
torpe
maldestre
klobig
gaucher
onhandig
paishon
atrapalhado
أخرقPronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəd/
Etymology
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.
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