Appendix:Gestures/gagging
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]This gesture is based on the action of touching one's uvula to force vomit.
Production
[edit]- Open your mouth, and put your tongue out.
- Point the index finger at your uvula.
Interjection
[edit][gagging]
- Indicates disgust.
- 1997, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
- [Minerva and Calliope are trying on a hat, in front of their mother.]
- Calliope: I saw it first. How do you think it looks on me, mother?
- Minerva: [does the gagging gesture] Awful.
- 1997, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella