| 单词 | air quote |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair quote air quote n. originally U.S. (usually in plural) a pair of quotation marks gestured by a speaker's fingers in the air, esp. to indicate that what is being said is ironic, mocking, or disingenuous, or is not a turn of phrase the speaker would typically employ. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > hand gesture > [noun] > finger gesture > other finger gestures fillip1530 devil horn1854 devil's horns1905 victory sign1942 bird1966 air quote1989 1927 Science 8 July 38/2 Some years ago I knew a very intelligent young woman who used to inform us that her ‘bright sayings’..were not original, by raising both hands above her head with the first and second fingers pointing upward. Her fingers were her ‘quotation marks’ and were very easily understood.] 1989 Spy Mar. 94/1 When Bob and Betty describe themselves in these ways, they raise the middle and forefingers of both hands, momentarily forming twitching bunny ears—air quotes, the quintessential contemporary gesture that says We're not serious. 1994 Guardian 10 Oct. ii. 11/3 This hugely successful new publication mixes beer, birds and bad language into a nauseatingly laddish concoction which Young insists is just for laughs. ‘It's like the Sun with air quotes around it.’ 1998 J. Haiman Talk is Cheap iii. 52 The ubiquity in North America of the mimed or ‘air quote’. 2001 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 17 June ‘I worked up a telecommuting package so I won't be fishing that much less. I get to work from home on Fridays,’ said Fitzpatrick, making air quotes around ‘from home’ with his fingers. < as lemmas |
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