gesticulate
verb (used without object)
to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
gesticulator
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a word derived from
gesticulate.
Example Sentences
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Cory Booker, Shrum pointed out, is a dramatic gesticulator.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2019
She was, and still is, a great gesticulator.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2013
Photograph: Kudos Film and Television/Nick Wall/BBC Waldemar Januszczak on The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution Peerless academic gesticulator puts donk on 19th-century familiarness Embattled Birdseyes battle lurching existential impasses aboard rusting Devonshire barks.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2011
The chanter of the "gests" of kings, gesta ducum regumque, dwindled into a gesticulator, a jester: the honored jogelar of Provence, into a mountebank; the jockie, a doggrel ballad-monger.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 by Various
They could not of course make use of speech, but Utway was such a powerful gesticulator that it was not difficult to make out his meaning.
From The Norsemen in the West by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
