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In Japanese Sign Language, this same gesture (with all fingers curled inward except the middle one) means the following: elder brother (hand moving up), younger brother (hand moving down), and siblings in general (one hand moving up, one moving down). [87] [88] This comes from a childish name of the middle finger, o-nii-san-yubi ("big-brother finger"), as opposed to o-tō-san-yubi ("dad finger", the thumb), o-kā-san-yubi ("mom finger", the index), o-nee-san-yubi ("big-sister finger", the ring finger) and aka-chan-yubi ("baby finger", the pinky). [89] The equivalent words for sisters are expressed with the pinky. In the Japanese manual syllabary, the middle finger (with the front of the hand facing forward) stands for the kana せ (which, incidentally, is also an archaic word for "brother"). Linguist Jesse Sheidlower traces the gesture's development in the United States to the 1890s. According to anthropologist Desmond Morris, the gesture probably came to the United States via Italian immigrants. The first documented appearance of the finger in the United States was in 1886, when Old Hoss Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of their rival the New York Giants. Wagner, Melissa; Armstrong, Nancy (2003). Field Guide to Gestures: How to Identify and Interpret Virtually Every Gesture Known to Man. Quirk Books. ISBN 1931686203. Bird Watching: Through the years with the crudest finger in sports". Sports Illustrated. February 5, 2007. Archived from the original on June 29, 2022 . Retrieved July 11, 2012.

Williams, Craig Arthur (2010). Roman Homosexuality. Oxford University Press. p.223. ISBN 978-0-195-38874-9. In 2023, in a ruling issued February 24 regarding a Canadian man who was accused of criminal harassment and uttering threats, Quebec court Judge Dennis Galiatsatos wrote, "To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger," and, "Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian. It may not be civil, it may not be polite, it may not be gentlemanly. Nevertheless, it does not trigger criminal liability." The accused man, Neall Epstein, was acquitted. [36] Early appearance in films a b Corbeill, Anthony (2003). Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome. Princeton University Press. p.6. ISBN 978-0-691-07494-8.a b Wulf, Steve (April 5, 1989). "All My Padres". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on June 6, 2013. Wu, Andrew (January 5, 2012). "Kohli fined for finger salute". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved November 6, 2023. The middle finger gesture was used in ancient times as a symbol of sexual intercourse, in a manner meant to degrade, intimidate and threaten the individual receiving the gesture. [4] It also represented the phallus, with the fingers next to the middle finger representing testicles; [5] from its close association, the gesture may have assumed apotropaic potency. [6] In the 1st-century Mediterranean world, extending the finger was one of many methods used to divert the ever-present threat of the evil eye. [7]

The media sometimes refers to the gesture as being mistaken for an indication of "we're number one", typically indicated with a raised index finger. [69] [81] [82] Sometimes, though, the "mistake" is actually an intentional euphemism meant to indirectly convey the gesture in a medium where a direct description would be inappropriate. For example, Don Meredith is famously noted in a 1972 Monday Night Football game describing the finger of a dejected Houston Oilers fan as, "He thinks they're number one in the nation." [83] Ira Robbins, a law professor, believes the finger is no longer an obscene gesture. [5] Psychologist David Walsh, founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family, sees the growing acceptance of the middle finger as a sign of the growth of a "culture of disrespect". [62] Bengtson, John (2011). Silent Visions: Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd. Santa Monica Press. p.228. ISBN 978-1-59580-057-2. Top aide put on spot over Trudeau's one-finger gesture". The Ottawa Citizen. August 25, 1982. p.11 . Retrieved July 17, 2012. MacDonald, George (1911). The Roman wall in Scotland (1ed.). Glasgow: J. Maclehose . Retrieved July 12, 2018. Kenneally, Tim (February 6, 2012). "Madonna's Super Bowl Halftime Show Edges Out the Game". reuters.com. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012.

More commonly in Turkish or Slavic regions, the fig sign (also known as nah or shish) serves as the equivalent to the finger, meaning "you won't get it" or "in your dreams". The gesture is typically made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers. This gesture is also used similarly in Indonesia, Turkey and China. [86] In 2017, while bicycling, Juli Briskman gave the finger to the motorcade of Donald Trump as it drove past her, and a photograph that went viral forced her to resign from her job. She was elected to the board of supervisors for Loudoun County, Virginia, in the 2019 Virginia elections. [58] In popular culture A message on the Vltava river under Prague Castle from the Czech sculptor David Černý to the pro-Kremlin president Miloš Zeman before the precipitated 2013 parliament election in the Czech Republic. Hopper, Tristin (August 22, 2016). "A B.C. museum says it's preserved the railcar from which Pierre Trudeau gave the finger to protesters". National Post . Retrieved February 20, 2021. The Ragged Irregular" (PDF). 91st Bombardment Group (H) Newsletter. April 1971. p.3 . Retrieved August 1, 2012. Doug Gibson, Southern California area flight leader, is presented with two mementoes in recognition of his outstanding leadership-an engraved mug and a carved wooden replica of the famed 'Rigid Digit.'

Cobra Starship's 'Middle Finger' Video Is Bird-Flipping Fun – Music, Celebrity, Artist News". MTV.com. January 19, 2012 . Retrieved July 9, 2012. Liddell, Henry George; Robert Scott (1940). "A Greek–English Lexicon: σκιμαλίζω". Oxford University Press (via Perseus Project) . Retrieved July 17, 2012.O'Neill, Kara (May 11, 2015). "Giving someone 'the finger' in Japanese Sign Language doesn't mean what you think it does". Daily Mirror . Retrieved February 28, 2021. In the film Speedy (1928), Harold Lloyd's character gives himself the finger into a distorting mirror at Luna Park, about 25 minutes into the film. Malina, Bruce J. (2001). The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology (3ed.). Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. p.124. ISBN 9780664222956. Gardner, Tim (February 5, 2012). "M.I.A. flips middle finger during Super Bowl halftime show" . Retrieved February 6, 2012.