butterfingers

See also: butter fingers

English

Etymology

butter +‎ fingers, suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things because their hands are coated in slippery butter.

Noun

butterfingers (plural butterfingers)

(informal) Someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz; someone who tends to drop things.
I am such a butterfingers. That's the third drink I've spilled today.

Derived terms

butterfingered

Translations

clumsy person who drops things

Czech: nemehlo (cs) n
Finnish: rähmäkäpälä (fi), mämmikoura (fi), nakkisormi (fi)
German: Tollpatsch (de) m, Tölpel (de) m
Greek: μανταλάκιας m (mantalákias)
Hungarian: lyukaskezű, kétbalkezes (hu)

Italian: mano di pastafrolla m
Maori: ninipa
Portuguese: mão furada f
Spanish: torpe (es) m or f, manazas (es) m or f, manos muertas m or f

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