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fumble-fingered

fumble-fingered adjective: clumsy with the hands; liable to drop things frequently.

Adjective

fumble-fingered (comparative more fumble-fingered, superlative most fumble-fingered)

  1. Clumsy with the hands; liable to drop things frequently.
    • "Lies!" said the tallest of the sons of Ivaldi. "I wouldn't trust those fumble-fingered incompetents to shoe a horse."2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 34

Forms of fumble-fingered

comparativemore fumble-fingered
superlativemost fumble-fingered

Questions about fumble-fingered

What does fumble-fingered mean?
Fumble-fingered means clumsy with the hands; liable to drop things frequently.
What part of speech is fumble-fingered?
Fumble-fingered is an adjective.

Words near fumble-fingered in the dictionary

  1. fumatorium
  2. fumatoriums
  3. fumatory
  4. fumble
  5. fumble the bag
  6. fumble-fingered
  7. fumbled
  8. fumbled the bag
  9. fumblefingers
  10. fumbler
  11. fumblerooski

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