Bras d'honneur

A physical demonstration of the bras d'honneur gesture

Bras d'honneur (From French; lit. 'arm of honor') is an obscene gesture used to show contempt. It has a similar meaning to phrases like "fuck you" or "up yours", like the finger gesture.

To perform the gesture, an arm is bent in an L-shape, with the fist pointing upwards. The other hand grips or slaps the biceps of the bent arm as it is emphatically raised to a vertical position.

The gesture is known by other names in different languages, including the Iberian slap,[a] forearm jerk, Italian salute,[b] or Kozakiewicz's gesture[c] (named after Polish pole vaulter Władysław Kozakiewicz, who did the gesture at the 1980 Summer Olympics).[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Spanish: corte de manga, lit. 'sleeve cut'; Portuguese: manguito; Catalan: botifarra, lit. 'sausage'.
  2. ↑ Italian: gesto dell'ombrello, lit. 'umbrella gesture'.
  3. ↑ Polish: gest Kozakiewicza or wał.

References

  1. ↑ Hughes, Geoffrey (2015). An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-speaking World. Routledge. p. 259. ISBN 978-1-317-47678-8.
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