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butter fingers

butter fingers is the alternative form of butterfingers.

Meaning of butterfingers

Noun

butterfingers (plural butterfingers)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
    • I am such a butterfingers. That’s the third drink I’ve spilled today.
    Synonyms:
    butterfinger
  2. (idiomatic, informal) One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.
    • “I guess everyone’s got butterfingers around here,” Cole said with a sly smile. “Lucky for us, I’ve got fast reflexes.”2014, Scott Ciencin, chapter 1, in Luck Be a Lady […] (Charmed), New York, N.Y.: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 4
  3. (idiomatic, informal) A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.

Forms of butter fingers

pluralbutter fingers

Questions about butter fingers

What is butter fingers the alternative form of?
Butter fingers is the alternative form of butterfingers.

Words near butter fingers in the dictionary

  1. butter down
  2. butter face
  3. butter faces
  4. butter fat
  5. butter fats
  6. butter fingers
  7. butter flap
  8. butter flaps
  9. butter flower
  10. butter flowers
  11. butter fruit

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