butterfingers



butterfingers

Someone who is clumsy and often drops things or else fails to catch something. I dropped another plate! I'm such a butterfingers today. Coach, don't put that butterfingers Jimmy in the outfield!

have butterfingers

To be clumsy, usually momentarily, by dropping or failing to catch something. I dropped another plate! I guess I just have butterfingers today. Coach, don't put Jimmy in the outfield—he has butterfingers!
See also: butterfingers, have

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
RoselynROZ-ə-linEnglish
JetteYET-təDutch
NevanNEV-anIrish
Isaija-Serbian, Macedonian
Demetriode-ME-tryoItalian, Spanish
Erdenechimeg-Mongolian