To sign this expletive, form a flat handshape with your dominant hand, keeping your fingers together. Place the back of your fingers underneath your chin. Sharply flick your hand forward and outward. Make sure to use a frustrated or intense facial expression to convey the strong emotion of the word.
Sign this by using the expletive sign sharply before signing 'ridiculous', ensuring your facial expression shows intense frustration and disbelief.
Use the sign to emphasize 'tired'. The outward flick should be forceful to show exactly how exhausted and fed up you feel.
Sign this expletive right before 'keys', furrowing your eyebrows deeply to show both anger and the grammatical marker for asking a 'wh-' question.
Sign this by using the expletive sign sharply before signing 'ridiculous', ensuring your facial expression shows intense frustration and disbelief.
Use the sign to emphasize 'tired'. The outward flick should be forceful to show exactly how exhausted and fed up you feel.
Sign this expletive right before 'keys', furrowing your eyebrows deeply to show both anger and the grammatical marker for asking a 'wh-' question.
No, this specific sign is used as an interjection or an emphatic adjective to show extreme frustration. The literal verb form of the word uses a completely different sign involving both hands.
Many Deaf people do mouth the word or use a specific mouth morpheme to emphasize the intensity of the expletive. Mouthing it can help clarify the exact word you are translating, especially since this sign can sometimes overlap with other strong slang.
Just like in spoken English, this is a highly profane and informal word. It should be avoided in professional, formal, or polite company, as it carries the exact same offensive weight as the spoken equivalent.
