butterfingers

Meaning

1. (idiomatic, informal) Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
2. (idiomatic, informal) One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.
3. (idiomatic, informal) A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.

Translations

torpe

matusser

manassas

manotas

poca-traça

Tollpatsch

Tölpel

maladroit

mani di ricotta

manos muertas

manazas

maldestre

sakar kimse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəz/

Etymology

From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.