Famously cited in Romeo and Juliet, which of these gestures was considered an insult in Elizabethan times?

The Elizabethan era's equivalent of giving someone the finger, biting your thumb and flicking it forward at someone was a highly offensive gesture in the 1600s. In Shakespeare's celebrated play, Capulet's servant Sampson starts a fight by "biting his thumb" at Abram, Montague's servant.

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