Who invented the middle"f*** you" finger?

Question

You know. The finger you get when you piss someone off.

Answer 1

The origin of this gesture is highly speculative, but is quite possibly up to 2500 years old. It is identified as the digitus impudicus ('impudent finger') in Ancient Roman writings [1] and reference is made to using the finger in the Ancient Greek comedy The Clouds by Aristophanes. It was defined there as a gesture intended to insult another. It has been noted that the gesture resembles an erect penis.[citation needed]

Ancient Romans also considered an image of an erect phallus as a talisman against evil spells. As a consequence, displaying this gesture to another may not have been a pseudo-sexual insult but rather an insulting statement along the lines of—"I'm going to protect myself against your witchcraft, before you even start" but an even earlier reference is made to ancient farmers using this finger to test hens for coming eggs.

Jean Froissart (circa 1337-circa 1404) was a historian and the author of Froissart's Chronicles, a document that is essential to an understanding of Europe in the fourteenth century and to the twists and turns taken by the Hundred Years' War. The story of the English waving their fingers at the French is told in the first person account by Jean Froissart. However, the description is not of an incident at the Battle of Agincourt, but rather at the siege of a castle nearby in the Hundred Years' War. Adding to the evidence is that by all accounts Jean Froissart died before the battle actually took place; it was therefore rather difficult for him to have written about it.

Answer 2

It's probably impossible to backtrack. But the meaning derives not only from a passing, visual resemblance of, err, southern anatomy, but also from ancient associations commonly entertained with the middle finger. It still means wealth, but it also means a few darker things. I would imagine that its use may have emerged in mediterranean Europe, as that area is more gesture-prone than restrained, anglocentered cultures, who never really used to gesture much until the 20th century.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

God invented that middle finger to use to hold a knife or fork or to hold a pencil, but He sure did not invent or create that finger for your idea of it's use! It must feel so good to gross people out.

Answer 5

An obscure Puerto Rican from the Bronx named "Juan Fin Jere". Circa 1947, I believe.

Answer 6

French archers from an old war. Their middle fingers were chopped off by the enemy. To taunt their opponets, they would flash their middle fingers to defy them.

Answer 7

somthing about the french fighting the english and the middle finger being the trigger finger, and the english thretening to cut it off.

Answer 8

It was actually invented by the same person that invented shorthand.

Answer 9

http://www.ooze.com/finger/html/history.html

Answer 10

Someone with a bad attitude.