butterfingers

See also: butter fingers

English

Etymology

butter (“A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk”) +‎ fingers (“One of the long extremities of the hand”), suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things because their hands are coated in slippery butter.

Noun

butterfingers (plural butterfingers)

(informal) Someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz; someone who tends to drop things.
I am such a butterfingers. That's the third drink I've spilled today.

Derived terms

butterfingered

Translations

clumsy person who drops things

Czech: nemehlo (cs) n
Finnish: rähmäkäpälä (fi), mämmikoura (fi), nakkisormi (fi)
German: Tollpatsch (de) m, Tölpel (de) m

Greek: μανταλάκιας m (mantalákias)
Maori: ninipa
Spanish: torpe (es) m, f, manazas (es) m, f, manos muertas m, f

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