pollicates
pollicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pollicate.
Meaning of pollicate
Verb
pollicate (third-person singular simple present pollicates, present participle pollicating, simple past and past participle pollicated)
- 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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- What is pollicates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Pollicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pollicate.
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