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butterfinger en · NOUN

Etymology

Clipping of butterfingers.

Meanings

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:

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Synonyms

butterfingers