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Butterfingered
//ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəd// adj
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Prone to dropping things; clumsy.
"[S]hee [a housewife] muſt be cleanly both in body and garments, ſhe muſt haue a quicke eye, a curious noſe, a perfect taſte and a ready care (ſhe muſt not be butter fingered, ſweet-toothed, nor faint hearted); for, the firſt will let euery thing fall, the ſecond will conſume what it ſhould increaſe, and the laſt will looſe time with too much niceneſſe."
Adjective
- 1 lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands wordnet
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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