Hypertext Webster Gateway: "butterfingered"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Butter-fingered \But"ter-fin`gered\, a.
Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery;
careless.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

butterfingered
adj : not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands;
"a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance";
"ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely
empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor
creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: {bumbling}, {bungling},
{ham-fisted}, {ham-handed}, {handless}, {heavy-handed},
{left-handed}]


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