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butter-fingered

butter-fingered is the alternative form of butterfingered.

Meaning of butterfingered

Adjective

butterfingered (comparative more butterfingered, superlative most butterfingered)

  1. Prone to dropping things; clumsy.
    • [S]hee [a housewife] muſt be cleanly both in body and garments, ſhe muſt haue a quicke eye, a curious noſe, a perfect taſte and a ready care (ſhe muſt not be butter fingered, ſweet-toothed, nor faint hearted); for, the firſt will let euery thing fall, the ſecond will conſume what it ſhould...1615, G[ervase] M[arkham], “[The English Hus-wife.] Of the Outward and Actiue Knowledges of the Hous-wife; and First of Her Skill in Cookery.”, in Countrey Contentments, in Two Bookes: The First...

Forms of butter-fingered

comparativemore butter-fingered
superlativemost butter-fingered

Questions about butter-fingered

What is butter-fingered the alternative form of?
Butter-fingered is the alternative form of butterfingered.

Words near butter-fingered in the dictionary

  1. butter-and-eggs
  2. butter-box
  3. butter-boxes
  4. butter-fat
  5. butter-fats
  6. butter-fingered
  7. butter-flower
  8. butter-ham
  9. butter-hams
  10. butter-muslin
  11. butter-slide

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