fingerspelling

English

Etymology

finger + spelling

Noun

fingerspelling (countable and uncountable, plural fingerspellings)

  1. The practice of representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
  2. Any system for representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands.
  3. A representation of the spelling of a word using just the hands.

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