Overgesture
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To gesture excessively.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From over- + gesture.
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