Historical Sign Language Database
Georgetown University
April 25, 2024
Search: SHAME
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| Entry ID | Book Source | Reference Gloss | Author’s gloss | Description | Page | URL |
| 44 | Higgins (1923) | SHAME | ASHAMED | ASHAMED: Back of right fingers against the right cheek, and fingers pointing downward, move the fingers upward a little by turning the hand to palm inward. (Shame) (Bashful) (Immodest) (Immoral) (Impure) (Be ashamed or Shame on You: "Ashamed" but as hand turns on cheek it is thrown out and down to supine toward the person accused). | 12 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=44&refid=higgins1923 |
| 169 | Long (1918) | SHAME | SHAME | SHAME: Place the backs of the fingers of one hand against the cheek; bend head slightly against them; draw the fingers up against the cheek, and straighten them with a motion of throwing the hand off toward the person shamed. To indicate self shame, place hands in same position, but draw the fingers against the cheek with a twisting motion, and do not let it leave the cheek, but draw the head back a little as if indicating a shamed feeling. To express "shame on you," the hand is thrown toward the person in an emphatic way while the eyes condemn. V,89. | 30 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/books/book-window.php?id=169&refid=long1918 |
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| Tag ID | Signer(Year) | Reference Gloss | Context | Segment | URL | |
| 270 | Dougherty (1913) | SHAME | N/A | BUT PUBLISH WRITE DISTRIBUTE PEOPLE, PEOPLE LOOK-AT(rf) WRONG(int) 3P-IX SIN(int), SHAME DOCTOR DET-IX(ctr). | 28 | hsldb.georgetown.edu/films/tablefilm.php?source=dougherty&glossid=270 |