| 单词 | butterfinger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutterfinger 1. A person with a tendency to let things fall or slip from his or her hands; a butterfingered person. Frequently used in the vocative. Also occasionally in singular form butterfinger.Frequently in contexts relating to cricket or baseball. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > clumsiness or awkwardness > manual clumsiness > person fumbler1803 butterfingers1835 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > types of fielder catcher1774 butterfingers1835 catch1853 1835 New Monthly Mag. June 182 When, in lifting the head of the seventh traitor,..the executioner happened to let it fall, cries of ‘Ah, clumsy’, ‘halloo’, ‘butter fingers’, were heard from various quarters of the assembly. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 69 At 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..‘Now, butter-fingers’—‘Muff’—‘Humbug’—and so forth. 1868 H. Kingsley Silcote III. vii. 123 I never was a butter-fingers, though a bad batter. 1911 Z. Grey Young Pitcher vi. 64 Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles. You butter-finger, can't you stop anything? 1948 M. Irwin Elizabeth, Captive Princess xxviii. 237 He stood there in front of her, clumsily trying to disentangle the reins of the two ponies... ‘Here, give them to me, butterfingers!’ she commanded, suddenly springing up beside him and pulling them out of his hands. 2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 10 Apr. 13 I'd wager he'd have been a right butterfingers if you lobbed him a ball of any shape. < as lemmas |
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