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have butterfingers
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!
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
AdriÁN | | ahd-RYAHN (Spanish), AWD-ree-ahn (Hungarian) | Spanish, Hungarian |
Melisende | | - | Medieval French |
Jael | | JAY-əl (English), JAYL (English) | Biblical |
Concetto | | kon-CHET-to | Italian |
Colleen | | ['kɔli:n] | |
Seosamh | | SHO-sav | Irish |