# butterfingers

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəz/ · frequency rank #96,820

## Definitions
1. Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
2. One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.
3. A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.

## Etymology
From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/butterfingers