gestures

queenbeywritingresources:

• Biting fingernails
• Jiggling leg up and down
• Tapping foot
• Twirling hair
• Running fingers through hair or tucking hair behind ear. 
• Smacking gum
• Whistling
• Slurping
• Burping
• Yawning
• Glancing at watch
• Talking with a full mouth
• Potty mouth
• Eye-rolling
• Constantly apologizing
• Snapping fingers
• Cracking knuckles (cliche)
• Humming
• Stuttering
• Licking lips
• Sniffing
• Squinting
• Applying Chap Stick to lips
• Picking at nail polish
• Raising eyebrows as they speak
• Winking
• Pulling at bottom lip
• Pinching skin
• Rubbing hands together
• Pointing
• Rubbing eyes/chin
• Twirling a ring around finger
• Picking at facial hair—eyebrows/eye lashes/moustache
• Excessive eye blinking
• Shifts in their seat when nervous
• Cross/uncross legs
• Clicking or tapping teeth with a nail
• Shrugging
• Slapping people on the back
• Jaw clenching/jaw muscle jerking (mainly a male attribute)
• Gesturing a lot when speaking
• Slouching
• Putting their feet on a desk or table
• Toying with objects before them
• Chewing on their pencil
• Chewing bottom lip
• Speech patterns 
• Nervous cough
• Picking at teeth
• Saluting
• Constantly touching up makeup using a compact mirror
• Constantly checking cell phone for messages (text or voice)
• High pitch/low raspy voice depending on mood
• Sliding the tip of one’s index fingernail up and down along the side of the thumb beside it
 • Playing with their glasses (spectacles) either pushing them up their nose or taking them off and twirling then by one of the arms.

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