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Butter-fingered   Listen
adjective
Butter-fingered, butterfingered  adj.  Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; not skillful in using the hands; slippery; careless.
Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Butter-fingered" Quotes from Famous Books



... studies. I've seen the table covered with books, and books piled up on the carpet at each side of his chair, but they'd all be back on their shelves, as neat as a new pin, when I went to tidy up the room after him. I never allow no butter-fingered girls in this room, except to sweep or scrub, under my own eye. There's not many ornaments, but what there is is precious, and the apple of ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon



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