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butterfinger

butterfinger noun: synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated”).

Noun

butterfinger (plural butterfingers)

  1. (also, attributive, uncommon) Synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated”).
    • You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles. You butter-finger, can't you stop anything?1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64
    Synonyms:
    butterfingers

Synonyms of butterfinger

Forms of butterfinger

pluralbutterfingers

Origin of butterfinger

Clipping of butterfingers.

Questions about butterfinger

What does butterfinger mean?
Butterfinger means synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated”).
What part of speech is butterfinger?
Butterfinger is a noun.
What is the plural of butterfinger?
The plural of butterfinger is butterfingers.

Words near butterfinger in the dictionary

  1. butterfats
  2. butterfatty
  3. Butterfield
  4. Butterfields
  5. butterfin
  6. butterfinger
  7. butterfingered
  8. butterfingers
  9. butterfish
  10. butterfishes
  11. butterflied

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