Synonyms for butterfingers
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : buht-er-fing-gerz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌt ərˌfɪŋ gɛrz |
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Définition of butterfingers
Origin :- "person apt to let things fall," 1837; see butter-fingered.
- noun a clumsy person
- Butterfingers was gone, she had got her a place in Somersetshire, so anxiety on that score was over.
- Extract from : « Ask Momma » by R. S. Surtees
- And, as every boy in the world knows, it is a great disgrace to be called "Butterfingers."
- Extract from : « Half-Past Seven Stories » by Robert Gordon Anderson
- You have just permitted the cleverest rascal in the state to slip through your butterfingers.
- Extract from : « Hearts and Masks » by Harold MacGrath
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