Used by heavy metal aficionados as devils horns.
Bob W wrote:
>> ============
>> So what did the V sign, back side of the hand out, used to mean?
>>
>>
>
> Same as it means now: go forth and multiply.
>
>
>> I am missing something here. I remember the cuckold sign,
>> cuckoldry being
>> popular in Shakespeare, as being something else.
>>
>>
>
> Cuckoldry has remained popular in the land of Shakespeare (depending
> on whether you are cuckolding or being cuckolded, I suppose).
>
> I don't know that the cuckold sign has ever been widely used here. It
> may have been, but I've always thought of it as a continental sign
> (the index finger and the pinky raised, the others lowered).
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
>
>
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