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noun

insubstantial words, arguments, gestures, or actions used in an attempt to explain or persuade.

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Also, hand-wav·ing, hand·wav·ing [hand-wey-ving] .

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Hand waving is always a great word to know.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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"Many waves are there agitated by the wind, keeping nature fresh, the spray blowing in your face, reeds and rushes waving; ducks by the hundred, all uneasy in the surf, in the raw wind, just ready to rise, and now going off with a clatter and a whistling like riggers straight for Labrador, flying against the stiff gale with reefed wings, or else circling round first, with all their paddles briskly moving, just over the surf, to reconnoitre you before they leave these parts; gulls wheeling overhead, muskrats swimming for dear life, wet and cold, with no fire to warm them by that you know of, their labored homes rising here and there like haystacks; and countless mice and moles and winged titmice along the sunny, windy shore; cranberries tossed on the waves and heaving up on the beach, their little red skiffs beating among the alders;Msuch healthy natural tumult as proves the last day is not yet at hand."

-Henry David Thoreau

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