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butterfingers

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13 lettersPronunciation /ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəz/Part of speech nounSorted beefginrrsttuStarts with BEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball)

Word origin

From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.

Used in a sentence

  • I am such a butterfingers. That’s the third drink I’ve spilled today.
  • “I guess everyone’s got butterfingers around here,” Cole said with a sly smile. “Lucky for us, I’ve got fast reflexes.”
  • “That boy’s got butterfingers,” Connor went on. “That’s twice he’s dropped a tool. He’s got no place on a construction site.”

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