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  • "What are you doing, butter-fingers?" she cried, as Sammy failed to catch hold.

    The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

  • He did not much expect to succeed, but he meant to try all he knew, ever since the day he was called "old butter-fingers" in a game in which he showed especial incapacity to catch the ball.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • The young gentleman, now blushing as furiously as the young lady, grasped the books in a promiscuous heap and slammed them down upon Rosie's desk with, "There now, butter-fingers."

    'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Now we'll see if I'm a good shot and if you're a butter-fingers.

    The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Angela Brazil 1907

  • She hurried back into her room, which the twins shared, and stood in damp martyrdom while Bessie's butter-fingers crept with miserable slowness up and down.

    The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906

  • He was, to use a popular expression, a regular butter-fingers, and broke whatever he touched.

    En Route 1877

  • It displays a mirrored image onscreen and overlays that image with diagrams and instructions to guide even the most slippery of butter-fingers through the tying process.

    Gizmodo Andrew Tarantola 2011

  • And furthermore you've ended an era, butter-fingers.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • First his hilarious butter-fingers attempt at saving a pea-roller shot from Clint

    Artrocker 2010

  • First his hilarious butter-fingers attempt at saving a pea-roller shot from Clint

    Artrocker Dave Artrocker 2010

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