butterfingered English

Meaning butterfingered meaning

What does butterfingered mean?

butterfingered

— adjective (= bumbling, bungling, ham-handed, handless) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands a bumbling mechanic a bungling performance ham-handed governmental interference could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature — Mary H. Vorse

Synonyms butterfingered synonyms

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ham-handed

left-handed

heavy-handed

handless

ham-fisted

bungling

bumbling

unheppen

unhandy

ungainly

symphoric

shambly

gormy

doplic

cumbersome