pollicate

English

Etymology

From Latin pollex (“thumb, big toe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlɪkeɪt/

Verb

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

1. To gesture with the thumb.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 467:

     ‘Disgusting? this is Tea, Friend, Cha,— what all tasteful London drinks,– that,’ pollicating the Coffee-Pot, ‘is what’s disgusting.’

Adjective

pollicate (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

• epollicate

References

• “pollicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Capetillo, pacotille