Is there a history to this? And why is it called flipping the bird? What's up with that?
2006-12-13 06:56:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
In Western cultures, the finger, as in giving someone the finger, is a popularly known obscene hand gesture made by extending the middle finger of the hand while bending the other fingers at the second knuckle. A known variation includes extending the thumb as well. Its meaning can be translated as "**** you". The gesture is also known as "the bird", "flipping the bird", or "flipping (someone) off."
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.
2006-12-13 06:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by BlondeBarbie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it started with a Seinfeld skit a few years ago.
2006-12-13 15:00:11 · answer #2 · answered by TROLL BOY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.ooze.com/finger/html/history.html
Try this link - dates back to the Ancient Greeks.
2006-12-13 15:00:01 · answer #3 · answered by allseeing 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure totally, but I believe it comes from the Romans....
2006-12-13 14:58:04 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE NEXT TIME YOU USE THAT FINGER GOD MAY JUST LEAVE IT STUCK THERE. WATCH HOW YOU ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT GOD.
2006-12-14 18:26:00 · answer #5 · answered by WANDA T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes there is history to this, it was wen u were born !! kk
2006-12-13 14:58:23 · answer #6 · answered by § gαввαηα § 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋