Overgesture

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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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