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The only online image i could find for a purlicue indicated the index finger and thumb were touching, but that does not seem right to me. An extended thumb and index finger makes a gun. Everybody knows that.
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And among the younger set when placed on the forehead means
"Loser".
(Welcome dlerh)
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An interesting note on perlicue in a 19th century magazine digitized over at Google Books ( link). (Not sure I'd buy the etymology.) Also, the entry in the Dictionary of the Scots Language link.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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[Appar. from pirlie, curly, s.v. PIRL, n., 1. The second element may represent cue, Fr. queue, a tail, also of a wig. The word seems to have originated as a school term in regard to handwriting.
This seems to make sense?
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The only online image i could find for a purlicue An extended thumb and index finger makes a gun. Everybody knows that. It does'nt make a gun when you also stretch the other three fingers.
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Sign for C shows the purlicue
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I suspect the forefinger and thumb aren't meant to be extended straight. This picture looks like the extension that's meant. Do you have a link to the picture you found, dlerh?
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The only online image i could find for a purlicue An extended thumb and index finger makes a gun. Everybody knows that. It does'nt make a gun when you also stretch the other three fingers. It's funny because I thought that is what was meant: finger extended completly as if shooting a gun.
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Purlicue and gun are not words you'd expect to have any association. Unless it were a frivolously decorated one.
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