Nevertheless, most British people would still be careful, if they needed to signify the number two in a gesture to someone else, to make the sign with palm facing the recipient. Definitions and other text are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. f off This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word F off.

If a person was actually fingerspelling this, the letters would flow together and the hand position in space would not jump around except when required due to multiple letters or multiple words. The history of the gesture is uncertain, and there is no evidence of its existence before the first decade of the 20th century. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. There are obviously specific signs for many words available in sign language that are more appropriate for daily usage.Bowmen who had not been thus disfigured took to holding up two fingers to taunt their cowardly foes. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it. While holding up your dominant hand, palm facing out, and your index finger and thumb both grasping at the same time, three other fingers must be spread apart so that the letter F resembles a circle made by combining and spreading three fingers evenly.

The American gesture, formed by holding up the middle finger alone, which was roughly equivalent to the V-sign, has been introduced to British culture by American films and other media, since about the 1960s, and is now well understood by most British people. In Western countries it;s an obscene gesture The back of the hand is shown with the middle finger raised and it means to «fuck off», «fuck you», «shove it up your ass» and such.