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
Anah-Biblical
AmramAM-ram (English), ahm-RAHM (Hebrew)Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Hebrew
FlÓRa-Hungarian
Deniel-Breton
Conchita[kɔ:n'tʃi:ta:]
Burgess['bə:dʒis]