overgesture

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From over- +‎ gesture.

Verb[edit]

overgesture (third-person singular simple present overgestures, present participle overgesturing, simple past and past participle overgestured)

  1. To gesture excessively.
    • 2005, Richard Morgan, Woken Furies, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 487:
      He overgestured and laughed too much, and at some point in his young life he'd had the bone of his skull opened at the temples and filled with jagged lightning-flash sections of purple-black alloy cement.