butterfingers | Idiomator

Meaning: Someone whotendstodropthings;(more generally)someone who isclumsyoruncoordinated; aklutz.Synonym:(less common)butterfingerI am such abutterfingers. That’s the third drink I’ve spilled today.1836March –1837October,Charles Dickens, “How Mr. Winkle, instead of Shooting at the Pigeon and Killing the Crow, Shot at the Crow and Wounded the Pigeon;[…]”, inThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London:Chapman and Hall,[…], published1837,→OCLC,page69:[A]t every bad attempt at a catch, and every failure to stop the ball, he launched his personal displeasure at the head of the devoted individual in such denunciations as—"Ah, ah!—stupid"—"Nowbutter-fingers"—"Muff"—"Humbug"—and so forth—ejaculations which seemed to establish him in the opinion of all around, as a most excellent and undeniable judge of the whole art and mystery of the noble game of cricket.1883, Frances I[sabelle]M. Kershaw, “Master Me”, inBaby: A Study of Baby Life, London:Burns and Oates,[…],→OCLC,page95:“[…]Pleasedon't handle them [birds’ eggs], Me! They are very fragile, and I would’nt[sic– meaningwouldn’t]lose them for anything.” / “I must hold them—just this once,” persists Me. “Don’t think I shall be such abutter[-]fingersas to break them. I’ve handled heaps of eggs before these!”; One'sfingerswhich tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.2014,Scott Ciencin, chapter 1, inLuck Be a Lady[…](Charmed), New York, N.Y.: Simon Spotlight Entertainment,Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division,→ISBN,page 4:“I guess everyone’s gotbutterfingersaround here,” Cole said with a sly smile. “Lucky for us, I’ve got fast reflexes.”2017,Cora Seton, chapter9, inIssued to the Bride: One Marine, San Bernardino, Calif.: One Acre Press,→ISBN:“That boy’s gotbutterfingers,” Connor went on. “That’s twice he’s dropped a tool. He’s got no place on a construction site.”; Atendencyto drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.

Examples:

EN: But old butterfingers dropped it. It blew out of his hand.
ES: El tonto la perdió en el viento.
EN: You stupid fool, you're a butterfingers.
ES: ¡Animal! ¡Idiota! ¡Tienes las manos de mantequilla!
EN: Scram, butterfingers. Take the lady with you.
ES: - Lárgate y llévate a la señorita.
EN: Missed, butterfingers!
ES: ¡Fallaste, dedos cortados!
EN: Come on, butterfingers.
ES: Venga, manazas.
EN: Easy there, butterfingers, easy!
ES: ¡Cuidado, dedos de mantequilla, cuidado!
EN: But my girl, you're butterfingers!
ES: ¡Hija mía, tienes las manos de mantequilla!
EN: Bunch of butterfingers.
ES: Puñado de torpes.
EN: Oh, butterfingers, Bickerstaff!
ES: Es usted un torpe, Bickerstaff.
EN: Oh, butterfingers!
ES: ¡Manazas!
EN: The butterfingers!
ES: ¡Será manazas!
EN: Give it here, you butterfingers!
ES: Trae aquí.
EN: That doctor always was a butterfingers.
ES: Ese doctor siempre fue un torpe.
EN: Can't you do anything right, you butterfingers?
ES: ¿No puedes hacer nada bien, torpe?
EN: C'mon, everything's falling down of my hands, as I'm butterfingers!
ES: Se me cae todo, ¡tengo manos de manteca!

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