pollicate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin pollex (“thumb, big toe”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editpollicate (third-person singular simple present pollicates, present participle pollicating, simple past and past participle pollicated)
- To gesture with the thumb.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 467:
- ‘Disgusting? this is Tea, Friend, Cha,— what all tasteful London drinks,– that,’ pollicating the Coffee-Pot, ‘is what’s disgusting.’
Adjective
editpollicate (not comparable)
References
edit- “pollicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.