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butter-fingers|ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋgəz|
A butter-fingered person; esp. one who lets slip through his fingers a cricket-ball that he ought to catch or stop. (colloq., chiefly in vocative.)
1837Dickens Pickw. vii, At every bad attempt to 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. 1840Thackeray Misc. (1857) II. 375 When the executioner had come to the last of the heads, he lifted it up, but, by some clumsiness, allowed it to drop; at this the crowd yelled out, ‘Ah, Butter-fingers!’ 1868H. Kingsley Silcote of S. III. vii. 123, I never was a butter-fingers, though a bad batter.
So butter-finger, attrib. (rare.)
1851Fraser's Mag. XLIV. 279 His ‘butterfinger’ fashion of taking hold of things. |
