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butterfingered

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14 lettersPronunciation /ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəd/Part of speech adjectiveSorted bdeeefginrrttuStarts with BEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • [I]t is always a matter of annoyance to the whole field when one of the party fails in a fair catch, or performs it in a bungling or "butter[-]fingered" style.
  • Youd better go and slam that bag, too, down on Miss Raina's ice pudding! [This is too much for Nicola. The bag drops from his hand.] Begone, you butter[-]fingered donkey.
  • Of course, one requires to be a little gifted that way and not to be butter-fingered, but what is chiefly necessary is patience and daily practice for long, long years.

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