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butterfingers

butterfingers

See also: butter fingers

English

Noun

butterfingers ‎(plural butterfingers)

  1. someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz; someone who tends to drop things
    I am such a butterfingers. That's the third drink I've spilled today.

Translations

Etymology

butter ‎(“A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk”) +‎ fingers ‎(“One of the long extremities of the hand”), suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things because their hands are coated in slippery butter.

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