awkward turtle

noun

Etymology

From the resemblance to a turtle. The gesture seems to have been borrowed from Auslan sign language.

Definitions

  1. An informal gesture used to indicate that a moment or situation is awkward.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for awkward turtle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA