unsplay

verb

unsplay

verb

Etymology From un- + splay.

1

Especially, Uncommon, Of fingers To bring together compactly.

  • ... fingers themselves — not splayed and unsplayed them, but pulsed them, I guess I'd say; pulsed them leisurely — leisurelily? I give up. No I don't. Fred Mackall pulsed his spread-fingered, fingertip-touching hands leisurely[…]2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 148:
  • ... fingers splaying and unsplaying over the brakes. “I can't.” I wouldn't. I'd never run against Jill again unless I actually wanted to win, and that included their idea of casually running with her. “I have to be somewhere.” Jill[…]2018 July 11, Colleen L. Donnelly, Out of Splinters and Ashes, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN:

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