Kozakiewicz gesture

[Dennis R. Preston]

Michal,

Where is "this muscle"?

DInIs



>    Greetings from Warsaw (perhaps "Wausau" or "War-sore" to you).  I
>go home tomorrow...Today was the Treblinka concentration camp and an
>ethnographic musuem.
>
>OK GESTURE--I was told this is used here.
>
>KOZAKIEWICZ GESTURE--An upturned fist, almost as if giving the
>finger.  The other hand is placed on this muscle.  Kozakiewicz was a
>Polish high jumper in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.  The Russian high
>jumper was favored by the crowd; Kozakiewicz won and gave this
>gesture back to the crowd.  OED?

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Dennis R. Preston
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