English Explanatory Dictionary

handwave

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The wave of a hand.
  2. A glib statement or explanation that glosses over important details.
verb
  1. To explain something superficially, skipping over important details, perhaps appealing to intuition instead.

Word forms

handwave handwaves hand-wave handwaving handwaved

Etymology

From hand + wave.

Related words

handwaver handwaving hand waving handwavium handwavy wave of the hand fudge the rest is history
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on H Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary