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He rates a podcaster below “movies, TV, recording artist, radio personality, mime and organ grinder monkey.”

He has no voice, just the toothy grin of a mime long past his mild mischief days.

Earlier this year, a principal at a San Gabriel elementary school made headlines after allegedly using her fingers to mime holding a gun and pretending to shoot kids, telling them, “Boom. You’re dead.”

Its developer used one intimacy co-ordinator to look after performers voicing intimate scenes, while another looked after those who were also miming actions to be digitised into the game.

A flower seller, asked about the tourist trade, irritably mimed how some outsiders would manhandle his delicate blooms — brilliant purple irises and Van Gogh-worthy sunflowers — and then walk away without buying anything.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.