mutton-fisted

adj

mutton-fisted

adj

1

Clumsy, lacking in manual skill

He was without exception the clumsiest and most mutton-fisted horseman I have ever observed.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):

Synonyms: ham-fisted

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.