noun

klutz

KLUTS/klʌts/

A clumsy or awkward person.

I'm such a klutz that I keep bumping into furniture.

A compact two-moment illustration shows the same woman making different everyday awkward mistakes: catching her toe on a low stool while carrying laundry, then knocking a glass over with her forearm while reaching across a table.

Etymology

Yiddish klots already applied the image of a block or lump to a clumsy person. English carries that image into someone whose movements or actions are awkward.

In context

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I'm a klutz Joy confessed I fell the other day in my kitchen the rubber of my shoe hit the floor and I went flying

The View’s Joy Behar reveals she slipped and fell in scary accident at home just months

More examples

He calls himself a klutz whenever he drops something.
Even a klutz like me can learn these dance steps.
We're both klutzes, so we leave plenty of space between our yoga mats.

Forms

klutz · klutzes

klutzy adjective — Clumsy or awkward in physical movement.

Similar words

butterfingers: Usually refers to someone who often drops things.
oaf: Suggests someone is both clumsy and inconsiderate or dull.