You have butterfingers.
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Butterfingers
//ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəz//
Synonyms for "butterfingers" (26 found)
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35 translations across 12 languages.
Czech
4 entries- gramloň noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
- motovidlo noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
- nemehlo noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- nemehlo noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
Finnish
4 entries- mämmikoura noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- nakkisormi noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- pääsiäiskäsi noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- rähmäkäpälä noun (someone who tends to drop things)
French
2 entries- avoir deux mains gauches noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
- maladroit noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
Galician
1 entries- zoupón noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
German
4 entries- Mensch mit zwei linken Händen noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
- Tollpatsch noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- Tölpel noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- unbeholfener Mensch noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
Greek
2 entries- ζημιάρης noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
- μανταλάκιας noun (someone who tends to drop things)
Hungarian
2 entries- kétbalkezes noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- lyukaskezű noun (someone who tends to drop things)
Italian
1 entries- mano di pastafrolla noun (someone who tends to drop things)
Māori
2 entries- ninipa noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- ninipa noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
Portuguese
4 entries- mão furada noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- mãos de manteiga noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- mãos de manteiga noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
- mãos de manteiga noun (one’s fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated)
Russian
1 entries- растяпа noun (someone who tends to drop things)
Spanish
4 entries- manazas noun (someone who tends to drop things)
- manazas noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
- manos de manteca noun (someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated)
- manos muertas noun (someone who tends to drop things)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
I am such a butterfingers. That’s the third drink I’ve spilled today.
Source: wiktionary
[A]t every bad attempt at a catch, and every failure to stop the ball, he launched his personal displeasure at the head of the devoted individual in such denunciations as—"Ah, ah!—stupid"—"Now butter-fingers"—"Muff"—"Humbug"—and so forth—ejaculations which seemed to establish him in the opinion of all around, as a most excellent and undeniable judge of the whole art and mystery of the noble game of cricket.
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“[…] Please don't handle them [birds’ eggs], Me! They are very fragile, and I would’nt^([sic – meaning wouldn’t]) lose them for anything.” / “I must hold them—just this once,” persists Me. “Don’t think I shall be such a butter[-]fingers as to break them. I’ve handled heaps of eggs before these!”
Source: wiktionary
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