butterfingered
Adjective Satellite
- lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; ; ; ; - Mary H. Vorse
Adj
- Prone to dropping things; clumsy.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed, ambilevous, ambisinistrous
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