pollicate

To gesture with the thumb.

Adjective

  1. Of insects: having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint.

Origin

From Latin pollex (“thumb, big toe”).

Derived

epollicate

Verb

  1. To gesture with the thumb.
    • ‘Disgusting? this is Tea, Friend, Cha,— what all tasteful London drinks,– that,’ pollicating the Coffee-Pot, ‘is what’s disgusting.’ - 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC,...

Forms

pollicates pollicating pollicated