It's a pinch when you take your thumb and stick it between either your pointer and middle finger or middle finger and ring finger and grab someone's skin between the thumb and whichever finger is on the bottom at the moment.

When armies took prisoners in southern Europe in the middle ages, they would sometimes be offered the chance to earn their freedom by eating a fig from a mules anus. As the captors taunted their captive, offering him this degrading method of escape, they would bite their thumbs.

An insulting shakespearean gesture akin to giving someone the finger which is gaining precedence with Arts students in university.

The first person sticks his or her fingers into a woman resembling the position of fingers in a bowling ball. Two fingers are inserted in the front, and the thumb in rear hole. Also known as the shocker position, except typically using the middle and ring finger, but then the first person *SNAPS* their fingers.

(n) using the index finger in the vagina and the thumb in the butt, simply snap.

It's an old English term for "Fuck you!" Is used in many of Shakespeare's plays.

It pretty much mean fuck you in lamens terms, or a different way to flip someone off back in the day