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English
Etymology
Clipping of butterfingers.
Noun
butterfinger (plural butterfingers)
- (less common, also attributively) Synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated”)
1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64: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?