butterfingers

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəz/
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• General-American: /ˈbʌtɚˌfɪŋɡɚz/
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• General-American: [-ɾɚ-]
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From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: nemehlo — someone who tends to drop things
• Finnish: mämmikoura — someone who tends to drop things
• Finnish: nakkisormi — someone who tends to drop things
• Finnish: rähmäkäpälä — someone who tends to drop things
• Finnish: pääsiäiskäsi — someone who tends to drop things
• French: maladroit (e) — someone who tends to drop things
• German: Tollpatsch — someone who tends to drop things
• German: Tölpel — someone who tends to drop things
• Greek: μανταλάκιας (mantalákias) — someone who tends to drop things
• Hungarian: kétbalkezes — someone who tends to drop things
• Hungarian: lyukaskezű — someone who tends to drop things
• Italian: mano di pastafrolla — someone who tends to drop things
• Māori: ninipa — someone who tends to drop things
• Portuguese: mão furada — someone who tends to drop things
• Portuguese: mãos de manteiga — someone who tends to drop things
• Russian: растяпа (rastjapa) — someone who tends to drop things
• Spanish: manazas — someone who tends to drop things
• Spanish: manos muertas — someone who tends to drop things
• Spanish: torpe — someone who tends to drop things
• Czech: gramloň — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Czech: motovidlo — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Czech: nemehlo — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Czech: nešika — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Czech: poleno — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• French: avoir deux mains gauches — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• French: maladroit — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Galician: zoupón — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• German: Mensch mit zwei linken Händen — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• German: unbeholfener Mensch — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• German: ungeschickte Person — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Greek: ζημιάρης (zimiáris) — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Māori: ninipa — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Portuguese: mãos de manteiga — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Spanish: manazas — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Spanish: manos de manteca — someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated
• Portuguese: mãos de manteiga — one’s fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated