gesticulate

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The two golden-brown girls were so heavily intoxicated they could but stagger to and fro and mouth and gesticulate, and one held a quart from which, as she moved, she spilled the ale.

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  1. intransitive verb To make gestures especially while speaking, as for emphasis.
  2. transitive verb To say or express by gestures.

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  • I get up, leaving them interrupting each other so passionately that Assad takes his hands off the wheel to gesticulate, and move back. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
  • "Suddenly the wasps begin to fall as though struck by lightning; for a few moments the abdomen quivers and the legs gesticulate, then finally remain inert, like a clockwork machine whose spring has run down to the last coil." —  Fabre, Poet of Science
  • It can gesticulate, reproduce phrases and move around when prompted.
  • Davis, tall, broad and bald at age 39, settles on a stool and begins to speak with a Georgia drawl and gesticulate, and then he�s drawing maps with his finger in the air and diagramming the August night two decades ago that landed him on death row. —  Of América
  • Davis, tall, broad and bald at age 39, settles on a stool and begins to speak with a Georgia drawl and gesticulate, and then he's drawing maps with his finger in the air and diagramming the August night two decades ago that landed him on death row. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
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gesticulate:   gesticulated ·  gesticulating
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  1. Latin gesticulārī, gesticulāt-, from gesticulus, gesticulation, diminutive of gestus, gesture, bearing; see gesture.

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  1. from Latin gesticulatus, past participle of gesticulari (later Italian gesticolare = Portuguese Spanish gesticular = French gesticuler), make mimic gestures, from gesticulus (found first in Late Latin), a mimic gesture, diminutive of gestus, a gesture: see gest.
 

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