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When armies took prisoners in southern Europe in the middle ages, they would sometimes be offered the chance to earn their freedom by eating a fig from a mules anus. As the captors taunted their captive, offering him this degrading method of escape, they would bite their thumbs.
I bite my thumb at thou! infidel!
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The grammatically correct way that Shakespeare would say "I bite my thumb at thou!" since everything has to be grammatically correct...
(An insult used in Shakespeare)
I bite my thumb at thee!
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As has been noted before, it has been used by Shakespeare.
A qualified guess is that the phrase, (and the hand gesture that accompanies it), symbolizes oral sex,
and implies that the insulted is gay.
Shakespeare - "Romeo and Juliet"
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a vaginal cream using in the "love-making" process
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