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発音

• IPA: /ˈpɒlɪkeɪt/

動詞

pollicate (third-person singular simple present pollicates, present participle pollicating, simple past and past participle pollicated)

1. 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.’

形容詞

pollicate (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Of insects: having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint.

派生語

参照

• “pollicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Capetillo, pacotille