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When done unconsciously, it's to blow little fuzz bits or crumbs off your fingertips, and then buff them on your clothes. As a deliberate gesture, it is used to show a feeling of superiority and expertise,usually as a little jokingly show-off thing, but done aimed at someone you dislike or consider inferior , it's sort of a swaggering put-down.It has it's origins as a class-concious gesture, when only the upper classes could afford manicures , then was taken up by the working class as a passive- aggressive way to mock their " betters " .

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