HEADSHAKE

headshake, headshaking

(noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement; “I could tell from their headshakes that they didn’t believe me”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

headshake (plural headshakes)

A shake of the head.

Source: Wiktionary


Head`shake`, n.

Definition: A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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27 May 2025

DIRECTIONALITY

(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”


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Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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