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pollicated

pollicated is the simple past and past participle of pollicate.

Meaning of pollicate

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

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Questions about pollicated

What is pollicated the simple past and past participle of?
Pollicated is the simple past and past participle of pollicate.

Words near pollicated in the dictionary

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

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