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单词 buttery-fingered
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buttery-fingered
buttery-fingered adj. having a tendency to let things fall or slip from one's hands; = butterfingered adj. 1.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward > clumsy with the hands
handless1483
left-handed1579
butterfingered1615
heavy-handeda1634
thumbless1648
unhandy1669
mutton-fisted1737
two-fisted1774
numb-handed1849
butterfingers1851
buttery-fingered1853
cack-handed1854
Marlborough-handed1893
thumb-fingered1903
thumby1909
ham-handed1918
ham-fisted1928
1853 C. Reade Peg Woffington i. 25 All the ladies and gentlemen..whom the buttery-fingered author could not keep in hand until the fall of the curtain.
1917 Photo-era Aug. 81/1 When buttery-fingered people like us get infected with the photographic germ, while learning they are apt to smash everything breakable from trays and negatives to their own bank-accounts and hearts.
2011 Sunday Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 July 71 A bunch of buttery-fingered backs who couldn't hold on to the ball.
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