Appendix:Gestures/finger snapping

Translingual

Production

Press the middle finger and thumb together and then fling the middle finger onto your palm, producing a clicking or snapping sound. (Not all people are capable of doing this.)

Interjection

[finger snapping]

1. Used as a peremptory way to get somebody's attention, for example a waiter in a restaurant.
2. Indicates remembering something previously forgotten.
   • 2012, "Desperate Souls", season 1, episode 6 of Once Upon a Time

     Rumpelstiltskin: Have you forgotten me already? What was it you used to call me again? Spindleshanks? [snaps fingers] Hobblefoot.

3. Used as a sassy, provocative way to show oneself to be dominant, to show who's boss.
   • 1937, Woodland Café, Silly Symphonies

     [The fly girl approaches the spider boy in a flirty way. The spider boy blows smoke from his cigarette on her face. The fly girl slaps his face and then snaps her fingers, before preparing to go away.]