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Les cornes du cocu (cornuto)

Faire les cornes derrière la tête d'un mari, en Italie, peut finir au commissariat.

Under developmentOffense

Category : Hand gesturesSubcategory : emblemes-une-mainConfidence level : 3/5 (documented hypothesis)Identifier : e0018

Geography of misunderstanding

Offensive

  • spain
  • portugal
  • italy
  • greece
  • malta
  • mexico
  • guatemala
  • honduras
  • nicaragua
  • el-salvador
  • costa-rica
  • panama
  • cuba
  • dominican-republic
  • puerto-rico
  • brazil
  • argentina
  • chile
  • colombia
  • peru
  • venezuela
  • ecuador
  • uruguay
  • paraguay
  • bolivia

Neutral

  • usa
  • canada

Not documented

  • peuples-autochtones
  • asie-sud-est

Full description

⚠️ This sheet is currently under development. Detailed content will be published in a later phase of the editorial project.

Faire les cornes derrière la tête d'un mari, en Italie, peut finir au commissariat.

Sources

  1. Morris, D., Collett, P., Marsh, P., & O'Shaughnessy, M. (1979). Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution. Stein & Day / Jonathan Cape.
  2. Axtell, R. E. (1998). Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World (revised edition). John Wiley & Sons.
  3. Matsumoto, D. & Hwang, H.C. (2013). Cultural similarities and differences in emblematic gestures. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37(1), 1-27. — ↗