bite (one's) thumb at

An archaic insult, often accompanied by the gesture of biting one's thumb at the person being insulted. How dare you say that to me? I bite my thumb at you, sir!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Koresh	-	Biblical Hebrew
Samİ	-	Turkish
Frieda	FREE-dah (German), FREE-də (English)	German, English
Katja	KAHT-yah (German, Dutch)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Slovene
Tracy	['treisi]
Pearl	[pə:l]