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pollicate

/ˈpɒlɪkeɪt/

pollicate verb: to gesture with the thumb.

Verb

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

  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, page 467

Adjective

pollicate (not comparable)

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

pollicate meaning in Bengali

pollicate in Bengali

বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুলি দিয়ে ইশারা করা

Forms of pollicate

third-person singular presentpollicates
present participlepollicating
past participlepollicated
pastpollicated

Origin of pollicate

From Latin pollex (“thumb, big toe”).

Words formed from pollicate

Questions about pollicate

What does pollicate mean?
Pollicate means to gesture with the thumb.
What is pollicate in Bengali?
Pollicate in Bengali is বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুলি দিয়ে ইশারা করা. See Pollicate meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is pollicate?
Pollicate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce pollicate?
Pollicate is pronounced /ˈpɒlɪkeɪt/.
What is the past tense of pollicate?
The past tense of pollicate is pollicated.

Words near pollicate in the dictionary

  1. pollex
  2. pollexes
  3. Polley
  4. Polleys
  5. pollical
  6. pollicate
  7. pollicated
  8. pollicates
  9. pollicating
  10. pollices
  11. pollicies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pollicate (page history and authors); pollicate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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