Appendix:Gestures/finger snapping
Appearance
Translingual
[edit]Production
[edit]Press the middle finger and thumb together and then fling the middle finger onto your palm, producing a clicking or snapping sound. (Not all people are capable of doing this.)
Interjection
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- Used as a peremptory way to get somebody's attention, for example a waiter in a restaurant.
- Indicates remembering something previously forgotten.
- 2012, "Desperate Souls", season 1, episode 6 of Once Upon a Time
- Rumpelstiltskin: Have you forgotten me already? What was it you used to call me again? Spindleshanks? [snaps fingers] Hobblefoot.
- 2012, "Desperate Souls", season 1, episode 6 of Once Upon a Time
- Used as a sassy, provocative way to show oneself to be dominant, to show who's boss.
- 1937, Woodland Café, Silly Symphonies
- [The fly girl approaches the spider boy in a flirty way. The spider boy blows smoke from his cigarette on her face. The fly girl slaps his face and then snaps her fingers, before preparing to go away.]
- 1937, Woodland Café, Silly Symphonies