pollicate

From Latin pollex "thumb, big toe".

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlɪkeɪt/

pollicate (third-person singular simple present pollicates, present participle pollicating, simple past and past participle pollicated)

1. to gesture with the thumb

   • 1997: ‘Disgusting? this is Tea, Friend, Cha,– what all tasteful London drinks,– that,’ pollicating the Coffee-Pot, ‘is what’s disgusting.’ — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

pollicate (not comparable)

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

• pollicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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