pollicating

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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