adj
butterfingered
Butterfingered (adj) means Likely to drop things; clumsy with your hands.
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Likely to drop things; clumsy with your hands.
"He watches the team faithfully on television, shouting his approval at the rectangular set or cursing the errors and fumbles of the butterfingered local nine or eleven or six or five."
— James T. Bennett, Introduction (2012)
"The Steagles did have a great line and good ball carriers. But their passing game was anemic and they had butterfingered receivers, who dropped passes and fumbled the ball with alarming regularity."
— Matthew Algeo, Birds of Steel (2006)
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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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What is the meaning of butterfingered?
"butterfingered" (adj) means likely to drop things; clumsy with your hands.
What is another word for butterfingered?
Other words for "butterfingered" include handless, bungling, bumbling.
What is the opposite of butterfingered?
The opposite of "butterfingered" is adroit.
