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单词 butterfingers
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Definition of butterfingers in English:

butterfingers

nounˈbʌtəfɪŋɡəzˈbədərˌfɪŋɡərz
informal
  • A clumsy person, especially one who fails to hold a catch.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the really annoying people said things like ‘hey, I heard what happened, butterfingers.’
    • The whole staff was just a bunch of wacky butterfingers who made the same mistake over and over again.
    • Unfortunately I'm a butterfingers and grabbed the door latch when I got a hold and the door swung open, with me on it.
    • But the butterfingers company boss Jerry Sanders later let them slip through his fingers.
    • Newton, much closer in spirit and physique to Hepburn, is funny and lovely throughout, but this is a two-hander and butterfingers Wahlberg isn't there to catch what she so ably throws his way.
    • Glasgow's first try had come even before Murray had left the field when flanker Stevie Swindall took advantage of some butterfingers to grab an early touchdown.
    • The result: timeless songs full of jangling guitars and giggling vocals and lyrics about being a lovesick butterfingers in a world of emotional icebergs.
    • Hold your horses, butterfingers, I'll be there in a minute!
    Synonyms
    blunderer, incompetent, amateur, bumbler, botcher, clown, hopeless case

Derivatives

  • butterfingered

  • adjectiveˈbʌtəfɪŋɡədˈbədərˌfɪŋɡərd
    informal
    • And when called to kick it up to action hero, he's clumsy and butterfingered, but determined.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thought we were going to say that butterfingered fan in Game 6, right?
      • Helping the cause were the butterfingered Hawks, who coughed it up 25 times…
      • Don't believe me, please, if I say that was just my butterfingered way, at thirteen, of asking you if you would marry me.
      • The Brazilian, one of four in the squad likely to travel to Manchester, is no longer the butterfingered version who dropped a shot from a grateful Lee Bowyer when Milan last played an English club in this competition, Leeds United.
 
 

Definition of butterfingers in US English:

butterfingers

nounˈbədərˌfiNGɡərzˈbədərˌfɪŋɡərz
informal
  • 1A person who regularly drops or fails to keep hold of things.

    What chance have we got with him in goal ? Old butterfingers
    the case provides some protection for those butterfingers who often drop their phone
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Newton, much closer in spirit and physique to Hepburn, is funny and lovely throughout, but this is a two-hander and butterfingers Wahlberg isn't there to catch what she so ably throws his way.
    • But the really annoying people said things like ‘hey, I heard what happened, butterfingers.’
    • The result: timeless songs full of jangling guitars and giggling vocals and lyrics about being a lovesick butterfingers in a world of emotional icebergs.
    • But the butterfingers company boss Jerry Sanders later let them slip through his fingers.
    • Hold your horses, butterfingers, I'll be there in a minute!
    • Unfortunately I'm a butterfingers and grabbed the door latch when I got a hold and the door swung open, with me on it.
    • The whole staff was just a bunch of wacky butterfingers who made the same mistake over and over again.
    • Glasgow's first try had come even before Murray had left the field when flanker Stevie Swindall took advantage of some butterfingers to grab an early touchdown.
    Synonyms
    blunderer, incompetent, amateur, bumbler, botcher, clown, hopeless case
    1. 1.1 A tendency to drop or fail to keep hold of things.
      the problem was that he had butterfingers and dropped many passes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And as for the fielding department, he has no butterfingers.
      • Dundee's wobbles were best exemplified by Langfield, who found himself afflicted by an acute attack of butterfingers.
      • After a short hiatus Microsoft's exec-related butterfingers syndrome has re-emerged.
      • Saracens' experience and speed was too much for them and it was a case of butterfingers at critical moments which restricted the score to just two tries each half.
      • Flatley's butterfingers will only lower his stocks further at the Troppo clubhouse.
      Synonyms
      ineptitude, ineptness, inability, lack of ability, incapability, incapacity, lack of skill, lack of proficiency, amateurishness, inexpertness, clumsiness, ineffectiveness, inadequacy, deficiency, inefficiency, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, insufficiency
 
 
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