Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having slippery or weak fingers; clumsy in the use of the hands.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; not skillful in using the hands; slippery; careless.
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- adjective prone to dropping things;
clumsy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam admitted his country has a cultural problem when it comes to fielding as the tourists '' butterfingered 'summer continued to haunt them on day one of the third Test against Australia at Bellerive on Thursday.
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Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam admitted his country has a cultural problem when it comes to fielding as the tourists '' butterfingered 'summer continued to haunt them on day one of the third Test against Australia at Bellerive on Thursday.
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For the chronically butterfingered there's even a magnified input area from which you can adjust your "ink" to whatever size you please—no reading glasses necessary.
Your Digital Scribe 2011
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With Marco Pierre White's unruly hair and Jay Rayner's beard, Roland seems a composite of the sort of modern foodie we associate with frantic TV kitchens full of effing and blinding, so it was refreshing the way he suffered his fools – dim waitress Kiki, butterfingered Axel ( "Careful with the plates – you're not at a Greek wedding") – like children with learning difficulties.
Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks; Inspector George Gently; Horizon Phil Hogan 2010
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I wonder if the high rate of butterfingered notebook computer owners suggests that those daft enough to take a computer to the beach are also daft enough not to look after it properly!
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She starts out in a vision as a jazz club singer and turns up later as a butterfingered attorney bound for Kenya.
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She starts out in a vision as a jazz club singer and turns up later as a butterfingered attorney bound for Kenya.
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The butterfingered Vikings fumbled six times, including a pair by tailback Adrian Peterson, but the Saints recovered only three of the bobbles.
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"We dropped the hammer on the villains," said Colby, either mired in cliches, or else bragging about how butterfingered they were with their tool belt.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: Robbed! 2010
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"We dropped the hammer on the villains," said Colby, either mired in cliches, or else bragging about how butterfingered they were with their tool belt.
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