On Nov 3, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > And in Russian "figa" is an obcene gesture of a masculine nature, > consisting of the thumb protruding between index and middle fingers > in a fist.
"The fig" in English is the same gesture. It comes up a few times in Shakespeare. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
