How do you call a gesture of spreading one's hands and turning them palms up to suggest a question? As in "what did you just do, man? That was so weird that left me speechless, so I had to raise my hands to show you I'm asking you stuff" or "Huh?"
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A common phrase for a questioning gesture is "spreading his hands". If emphatic, the phrase might become "spreading his hands wide".
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As with most complex situations, there is no single word in English for the gesture that you are describing. Instead, a multiword description of what you mean, perhaps as you have just done, is how one talks about it. |
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