fumble-fingered

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

fumble-fingered (comparative more fumble-fingered, superlative most fumble-fingered)

  1. Clumsy with the hands; liable to drop things frequently.
    • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 34:
      "Lies!" said the tallest of the sons of Ivaldi. "I wouldn't trust those fumble-fingered incompetents to shoe a horse."
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