American Sign Language

Alternative forms

• (with more narrowly spaced hands) 3@InsideTrunkhigh-PalmDown-3@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown Upanddown-Upanddown
• (with dominant hand initially higher) 3@SideChesthigh-PalmDown-3@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown Upanddown-Upanddown
• (narrower and higher) 3@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown 3@InsideSternumhigh-PalmDown Upanddown-Upanddown
• (Motion's direction) 3@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown 3@InsideSternumhigh-PalmDown Upanddown-Downandup

Production

• This two-handed ASL sign is produced with a facial expression suggesting awkwardness:
  1. 
     Posture the nondominant hand in the “3” shape about half an arm's length in front of and beside the chest, nondominant palm facing down. Posture the dominant hand in the “3” shape in front of and beside the trunk, dominant palm facing down.
  2. Move both hands alternatingly and repeatedly up and down.
  3. 
     Posture the nondominant hand in the “3” shape in front of and beside the trunk, nondominant palm facing down. Posture the dominant hand in the “3” shape about half an arm's length in front of and beside the chest, dominant palm facing down.
• (clumsy): A different facial expression expresses the meaning "clumsy", typically with the mouthing "TH".

Adjective

(ASL gloss: AWKWARD)

1. awkward
2. clumsy

Synonyms

• (clumsy): OpenA@InHand-ThumbAcross-S@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown 5@InHand-ThumbAcross-S@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown