mutton-fisted
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]mutton-fisted (comparative more mutton-fisted, superlative most mutton-fisted)
- Clumsy, lacking in manual skill
- 1937, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London: Faber and Faber, page 108 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):
- He was without exception the clumsiest and most mutton-fisted horseman I have ever observed.