butterfinger
noun
butterfinger is a noun meaning “Synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-U-T-T-E-R-F-I-N-G-E-R, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of butterfinger is butterfingers.
What does butterfinger mean?
noun
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Synonym of butterfingers (“someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of butterfinger
- butterfingers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is butterfinger?
Butterfinger appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does butterfinger come from?
Clipping of butterfingers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).