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形容詞

gesticulatory (comparative more gesticulatory, superlative most gesticulatory)

1. Of or relating to a gesticulation; accompanied by gesticulation.

   a gesticulatory movement

   • 1876, George Eliot, chapter 22, in Daniel Deronda‎, volume 2, page 60:

     On this theme Klesmer’s eloquence, gesticulatory and other, went on for a little while like stray fireworks accidentally ignited, and then sank into immovable silence.

   • 1961, Chin Yang Lee, chapter 12, in Cripple Mah and the New Order‎, page 63:

     The skinny fellow, with gesticulatory accompaniment, shouted out a long-winded piece about the Chinese people versus American Imperialism.

   • 2016, Margaret Drabble, The Dark Flood Rises:

     This mishap has hardly interrupted her animated gesticulatory discourse on the estate she’d visited the week before […]

2. Making frequent gesticulations.
   • 1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11,‎:

     The French loungers are gesticulatory, and shoulders, arms, fingers, eyes and eyebrows help out the tongue's rapid utterance; but they are never rude or boisterous.

   • 1908, Arnold Bennett, chapter 4, in The Old Wives’ Tale‎, page 371:

     There were vast surging crowds in the Rue de Rivoli, and much bunting, and soldiers and gesticulatory policemen.

   • 2024 April 10, Simon Burnton, “London Lions win first EuroCup after second leg fightback against Besiktas”, in The Guardian‎:

     Aziz Akkaya, the wildly gesticulatory Besiktas coach, was sufficiently outraged that he earned a second technical foul, the home fans booing and baying as they waved him out of the arena.

同意語

• gesticulative