butterfingered
3 synonyms and 1 antonym for butterfingered, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Likely to drop things; clumsy with your hands.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
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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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