Disgust Asl (2024)

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American Sign Language: "disgust"

To sign gross, make a face of disgust and rub your dominant hand in a claw shape on top of your belly, in counter-clockwise circles. Another popular way to sign gross in ASL is to take your dominant claw-shaped hand, then make a clockwise motion on your chest.

ASL signs for 'awful'

Meaning: Extremely bad or unpleasant; terrible. Pronunciation (sign description): Both '8' hands held near sides of face flick once where hands end in the '5' handshape. Variation: Sometimes this signword is done with one hand.

"insult" American Sign Language (ASL) The sign for "insult" uses an index finger. Move the finger forward and up with a twisting motion.

American Sign Language: "negation" The sign for "negative," or "minus" touches the side of your "index" finger to the palm of your base hand. NEGATIVE or minus: Notes: For most simple negation you don't need any separate sign--you just shake your head negatively while signing.

To sign "bother," or "annoy" use your dominant hand to "chop" into the webbed area between the thumb and index finger of your non-dominant hand.

Old ASL. "Hate -- Hold the open hands out toward left side, ends pointing up; push hands away and avert face as if pushing off some unpleasant object." (

Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf African Americans in the United States. The divergence from ASL was influenced largely by the segregation of schools in the American South.

American Sign Language: "drunk"

This version means drunk but it also is good for such things as "tipsy" or "buzzed." Hold a palm-down 4-hand up in front of your eyes (fingertips pointing toward the side. Move the hand side to side in front of your face while wiggling your fingers. Use a "drunk" facial expression.

To sign stinky or stink, we pinch our nose with our dominant hand's pointer finger and thumb, and we make a disgusted expression that conveys a stinky smell.

What is the ASL sign for shush? ›

Interjection used to call for silence or to tell someone to stop talking or to be less noisy. Pronunciation/articulation: Dominant forefinger (palm facing left) taps on the mouth with mouthing "SH". Video (2017) courtesy of Nancy Barker, a Deaf zoologist.

The normal developmental age for a baby's first spoken word is 9 – 12 months. Whereas, to communicate via sign language only gross motor skills are needed to move the arms and hands to communicate the intended message.

American Sign Language: "yell"

Hold a loose "C" hand, palm up, near your mouth (sort of as if you were holding an apple which you were about to take a bite out of) and then move your hand forward and upward as if representing a "yell" coming out of your mouth. Match your facial expression to the intensity of your yell.