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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Butter-fingers Said of a person who lets things fall out of his hand. His fingers are slippery, and things slip from them as if they were greased with butter. Often heard on the cricket field. "I never was a butter-fingers, though a bad batter."- H. Kingsley. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BUTTER-FINGERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kétbalkezes ember (fumbler), ügyetlen ember (bumpkin, bungler, dildo, dropsy, gimp, numb hand, screw-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | maaigerey (awkward, awkward handed, clumsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utter-fingersbay растяпа (bungler, schnook). (various references) người vụng về (booby, bumpkin, fumbler, lout, lubber, muff, swabber, swobber), người lóng ngóng (fumbler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: butterfingers. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-f-g-i-n-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: befretting, ferretings, reuttering, trusteeing. | |
-4 letters: befingers, befringes, besetting, bettering, brunettes, butterier, butteries, buttering, ferreting, festering, fettering, fingerers, genitures, interfuse, rebutters, rebutting, refigures, resetting, resurgent, retesting, reuniters, surfeiter, tenebrist, turneries, unfetters. | |
-5 letters: befinger, befringe, beguines, beignets, benefits, bitterer, bitterns, briefers, briefest, bringers, bruiters, brunette, burettes, burriest, bursting, esurient, eugenist, feigners, ferniest, ferrites, figurers, fingerer. | |
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