“butter-fingered”的英文意思

单词

butter-fingered

释义

ˈbutter-ˌfingered, a.
That takes hold of things with a loose slippery grasp, as if with fingers greased with butter; apt to let things fall or slip through one's fingers. Also fig. (colloq.)
The dial. sense is often ‘unable to handle anything hot’.
1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. ii. (1668) 51 She must not be butter-fingred, sweet-toothed, nor faint-hearted; for the first will let everything fall, etc.1841Fraser's Mag. XXIII. 671 Butterfingered at a catch.1884Chr. Commw. 14 Feb. 428/3 A discreet Christian meets with few rebuffs; a blundering butter-fingered one with many.

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