butterfingers

Meaning

1. Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
2. One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.
3. A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.

Etymology / origin

From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.

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