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40 locations action alert ancient cheek screw cheek stroke chin flick Common Relatively Rare cuckold Denmark Holland N dominant ear touch Eire Norway Sweden England N Ireland Europe explanation eyelid pull fig-sign fingers gesture fingertips kiss Florence forearm jerk forefinger France W Germany Austria gesture map Greece S Greece Greece Turkey Canaries Greek hand purse Harvey Smith head toss informants at 40 interpretation Ireland Eire Norway Italian Italy KEY Relatively Common Malta Tunisia Yugoslavia meaning Naples Naples IT Taranto Norway Sweden Denmark nose tap nose thumb original palm-back V-sign particular gesture phallic popular praise protective region Relatively Common Relatively Relatively Rare Absent ring gesture Rome Sardinia Malta Tunisia saying Scotland Wales England sexual insult Sicily N signal Spain Canaries Portugal Sweden Denmark Holland symbolic gesture Taranto teeth flick Tunisia Yugoslavia Corfu Turin Turkey Canaries Portugal usage V-sign variant vertical horn-sign Wales England N zero