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  2. Obscene gesture - Wikipedia

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    The middle finger is still used though, and it is considered more insulting. Another variation of the middle finger is used, where all the fingers but the middle one are spread wide while moving the hand back and forth in the axis the middle finger creates. In this gesture, the thumb sometimes touches the middle finger.

  3. Fig sign - Wikipedia

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    Fig sign. The fig sign is a mildly obscene gesture that uses a thumb wedged in between two fingers. The gesture is most commonly used to ward off the evil eye, insult someone, or deny a request. It has been used at least since the Roman Age in Southern Europe and parts of the Mediterranean region, including in Turkish culture.

  4. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Fig sign is a gesture made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers, or, rarely, the middle and ring fingers, forming the fist so that the thumb partly pokes out. In some areas of the world, the gesture is considered a good luck charm; in others (including Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Russia, Serbia ...

  5. The finger - Wikipedia

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    The finger. Person "giving the middle finger". In Western culture, " the finger ", or the middle finger (as in giving someone the ( middle) finger, flipping the bird [1] or flipping someone off) [1] is an obscene hand gesture. The gesture communicates moderate to extreme contempt, and is roughly equivalent in meaning to "fuck you", "fuck me ...

  6. Yubitsume - Wikipedia

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    Yubitsume. Yubitsume (指詰め, "finger shortening") or otoshimae is a Japanese ritual to atone for offenses to another, a way to be punished or to show sincere apology and remorse to another, by means of amputating portions of one's own little finger. In modern times, it is primarily performed by the yakuza, one of the most prominent Japanese ...

  7. V sign - Wikipedia

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    The V sign was known in Japan from the post-World War II Allied occupation of Japan, but did not acquire the use in photographs until later. Young Japanese women giving V gesture in Ikebukuro (2010) In Japan, it is generally believed to have been influenced by Beheiren 's anti-Vietnam War activists in the late 1960s and a Konica camera ...

  8. Profanity in American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Using a middle finger as the 'classic' flipping of the bird has a different meaning. In the 1980s, the myth was made that the b-handshape flipped under the chin was a sign of saying "Fuck you". Some linguists contend that when the middle finger is used directionally, and pointed at someone or something, it becomes a sign. Another common sign ...

  9. Serious health risks from biting your nails will horrify you

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    Biting your nails is no picnic for your teeth, either. "Constant biting can lead to poor dental occlusion," says Richard Scher, M.D., an expert in nail disorders, "so the biter's teeth shift out ...