Butter-fingered
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Butter-fingered is an adjective meaning Alternative form of butterfingered.
Meaning
Alternative form of butterfingered.
Example Sentences
One day this butter-fingered fish hawk was flying high over the island carrying a big, fat fish which suddenly slipped from his grasp.
Of course, one requires to be a little gifted that way and not to be butter-fingered, but what is chiefly necessary is patience and daily practice for long, long years.
When a Land Dyak village has turned out for a wild-pig hunt in the jungle, those who remain at home may not touch water or oil with their hands during the absence of their friends, lest the hunters should all become ‘butter-fingered,’ and the prey so escape them [...].
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dryhanded, brokenhanded, cackhanded, limpwristed, hamfisted, kack-handed.
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