To sign disgust in ASL, bend the fingers of your dominant hand into a loose claw and hold it in front of your upper chest, palm toward your body. Move the hand in small circles in front of the chest. Your face does a lot of the work: lips pressed and pulled, eyes narrowed.
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How to sign it
Handshape: a bent 5 hand, the fingers spread and curved like a loose claw.
Location: in front of the upper chest.
Movement: small circles in front of the chest.
Palm orientation: the palm faces toward the body.
Facial expression: lips pressed and pulled, eyes narrowed.
Use it in a sentence
EAT FISH? DISGUST.
Eat fish? That is disgusting.
Lifeprint shows DISGUST in a video only, with no written description, so the steps here come from AISA's video.
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/d/disgust.htm (video only).
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