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English
Etymology
From Latin pollex (“thumb, big toe”).
Pronunciation
Verb
pollicate (third-person singular simple present pollicates, present participle pollicating, simple past and past participle pollicated)
- 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)
- (zoology) Of insects: having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint.
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