FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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a person that is hopeful and confident about the future
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to hold up your middle finger as a very rude sign
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to bother or annoy
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to draw back suddenly, as with fear or pain
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Detailed explanation-1: -The raising of one’s middle finger (also referred to as “giving someone the finger, ” “flipping someone off, ” or “flipping the bird”) is a traditionally obscene gesture in Western culture. The gesture dates as far back as 423 BC when Ancient-Greek comic-playwright Aristophanes used the gesture in his play, The Clouds.
Detailed explanation-2: -US slang. : to make an offensive gesture at (someone) by pointing the middle finger upward while keeping the other fingers folded down. angry drivers flipping each other the bird.
Detailed explanation-3: -Flipping the bird meaning in ancient Rome It even had a cool Latin name: the digitus impudicus, or unchaste finger. Giving someone this sign wasn’t the flippant bird of today, however; in Rome, giving someone the finger meant threatening them with anal penetration.