gesticulate

Verb

gesticulate (third-person singular simple present gesticulates, present participle gesticulating, simple past and past participle gesticulated)

1. (intransitive) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.
   • A "Haka" is the native dance, answering to the corroboree of the Australian aboriginals, and we were anxious to see it. […] Later in the evening, however, the complaisant Herekiekie entertained a small and select party at a "Haka" in his "whare" or house (pronounced wharry). It was exactly what I...1876 January, “A Week among the Maoris of Lake Taupo”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXXIII, number 193, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, →OCLC, page 65
   • ... groups of dancers were wheeling, plunging, and gesticulating while the ogre, more aphasic than before, mumbled at full strength ...1954, Kingsley Amis, chapter 12, in Lucky Jim

   Synonyms:

   gesture

2. (transitive) To say or express through gestures.
   • […]the TV programme Friends is influencing not only the way Irish people speak but also how they gesticulate. Now almost every utterance is accompanied by arms outstretched and palms turned upwards."2004 December 6, Irish Times