butterfinger

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butterfinger

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Clipping of butterfingers.

noun butterfingers

also, attributive, uncommon Synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated”). You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles. You butter-finger, can't you stop anything?
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@misc{butterfinger_2026,
  title = {butterfinger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/butterfinger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}