| 单词 | buttery-fingered |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbuttery-fingered buttery-fingered adj. having a tendency to let things fall or slip from one's hands; = butterfingered adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward > clumsy with the hands handless1483 left-handed1579 butterfingered1615 heavy-handeda1634 thumbless1648 unhandy1669 mutton-fisted1737 two-fisted1774 numb-handed1849 butterfingers1851 buttery-fingered1853 cack-handed1854 Marlborough-handed1893 thumb-fingered1903 thumby1909 ham-handed1918 ham-fisted1928 1853 C. Reade Peg Woffington i. 25 All the ladies and gentlemen..whom the buttery-fingered author could not keep in hand until the fall of the curtain. 1917 Photo-era Aug. 81/1 When buttery-fingered people like us get infected with the photographic germ, while learning they are apt to smash everything breakable from trays and negatives to their own bank-accounts and hearts. 2011 Sunday Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 July 71 A bunch of buttery-fingered backs who couldn't hold on to the ball. < as lemmas |
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