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Clumsy person playing with fire gets burnt
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butterfingers
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Word definitions for butterfingers in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz; someone who tends to drop things
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
butterfingers \butterfingers\ n. someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball); a person who is butter-fingered.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person apt to let things fall," 1837; see butter-fingered .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Butterfingers were an Australian hip hop group from Brisbane, Queensland . Most of their releases are on their own label, Valley Trash Records.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball)
Usage examples of butterfingers.
He picked the card he wanted, one with a barn and-meadow scene that was as serene as the way Emily made him feel, and paid for it plus half a dozen Butterfingers, at the register.
Coupled with skilled questioning intended to bring forth every final detail, including self-abuse and compulsive overconsumption of Baby Ruths, Mars Bars, Butterfingers, significance of which in terms of sexual self-aggrandizement was first pointed out to me by this good and holy man.
He, the impractical butterfingers, who couldn't even sharpen a pencil properly, assumed the air of a man who knows something about repairing tin drums.