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Feb 6, 2012 · While the middle finger may historically have symbolised a phallus, it has lost that distinctive meaning and is no longer even obscene, says ...
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Apr 30, 2019 · A pair of experiments asks this question for the Middle-Finger, a cross-culturally recognized obscene gesture. The prevailing view is that the ...
Dec 13, 2011 · The middle finger is one of our species' oldest and most ubiquitous insulting gestures. But why is waving one of your fingers offensive?
The gesture communicates moderate to extreme contempt, and is roughly equivalent in meaning to "fuck you", "fuck me", "shove it up your ass/arse", "up yours", ...
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Jan 22, 2024 · Proudly displaying a middle finger was usually a joke, an insult or a sexual proposition, Nelson and other classical researchers posit. A few ...
May 31, 2016 · A raised middle finger reflects something detestable, and shows whoever committed the offense just how awful we think it is. A symbol of protest ...
Aug 5, 2022 · One finger is fuck you. Two fingers is fuck off. We just call it giving someone the finger/middle finger.
Slang. an obscene gesture of contempt made by pointing this finger upward while folding the other fingers against the palm; the finger: finger ( def 18 ).