air quotes
air quotes
plural noun
a gesture in which two fingers of each hand draw quotation marks in the air, used when uttering a word or phrase one does not think is appropriate or accurate. Compare scare quotes.
Also called finger quotes.
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| Main Entry: | air quotes |
| Part of Speech: | n pl |
| Definition: | a twitching movement of the first and second fingers of both hands to quote another or to emphasize or be sarcastic about a statement |
| Usage: | slang |
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Air quotes
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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