noun
- a person who frequently drops things or handles them clumsily
Usage: informal
Examples
- Don’t let butterfingers carry the wedding cake.
- I’m such butterfingers when it comes to catching baseballs.
- The coach called him butterfingers after he dropped three passes.
- She’s butterfingers with her phone and has cracked the screen twice.
- My butterfingers brother broke another glass at dinner.
- The quarterback earned the nickname butterfingers after fumbling so often.