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butterfingered
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From butter + fingered (“having fingers (of the specified kind)”),[1] an allusion to people tending to drop things because their hands are so slippery that they seem to be covered in butter.
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butterfingered (comparative more butterfingered, superlative most butterfingered)
- Prone to dropping things; clumsy.
- Synonyms: (まれに) ambilevous, ambisinistrous
- 1615, G[ervase] M[arkham], “[The English Hus-vvife] Of the Outward and Actiue Knowledges of the Hous-wife; and First of Her Skill in Cookery”, in Covntrey Contentments, in Two Bookes: The First, Containing the Whole Art of Riding Great Horses in Very Short Time, […] The Second Intituled, The English Husvvife: […], printed at London: By I[ohn] B[eale] for R[oger] Iackson, […], OCLC 1063205052, page 39:
- [S]hee [a housewife] muſt be cleanly both in body and garments, ſhe muſt haue a quicke eye, a curious noſe, a perfect taſte and a ready care (ſhe muſt not be butter fingered, ſweet-toothed, nor faint hearted); for, the firſt will let euery thing fall, the ſecond will conſume what it ſhould increaſe, and the laſt will looſe time with too much niceneſſe.
- 1858 January, “Art. VI.—An Essay on the Beneficient Distribution of the Sense of Pain. By G. A. Rowell, […] Oxford, 1857.”, in The London Quarterly Review, volume XLIX, number I (London edition, volume CIII, number CCV), American edition, New York, N.Y.: Published by Leonard Scott & Co., […], OCLC 472175614, page 115, column 2:
- There are few who are ignorant of the circumstance which occurred at the execution of [Arthur] Thistlewood and his fellow conspirators for treason. A thrill of horror ran through the crowd when the first head was severed from its body, but so rapidly did the spectators become accustomed to the sight that on the executioner accidentally letting the third head drop, there was a shout of 'Ah! butter[-]fingered!'
- 1903, Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant: Ten Volumes in One, volume I, New York, N.Y.: P[eter] F[enelon] Collier & Son Corporation, OCLC 123344850, page 164, column 1:
- 1997, Thomas [Carr] Frank, “Advertising as Cultural Criticism: Bill Bernbach versus the Mass Society”, in The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 69:
- Even the jolly menials of the consumer world who were always romanticized in older advertising (the admiring butler, the compliant porter, the beloved Philip Morris bellboy) are lampooned in one 1970 American Tourister television commercial: a suitcase is tossed into a zoo cage, snatched up by a particularly violent ape who snorts and growls and smashes it about. Meanwhile, a placid announcer speaks of "savage baggagemasters," "clumsy bellboys," "brutal cab drivers," and "all butter-fingered luggage handlers all over the world." While in earlier spots such humble figures would have been rendered in friendly terms, here they are compared to apes.
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- ^ “butterfingered, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2018; “butterfingered, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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