Does anyone recognize this as an ASL gesture: clenched fist, with thumb up, is waved in a circular motion in front of the face. In a movie I was watching, two otherwise hearing characters use it as a way of silently saying goodbye, then they kiss.
I should add that the fist is moved in a circle on a vertical plane, not horizontal.
I’m not certain, but if you feel like killing some time until someone more in the know answeres, you can always poke around here – maybe you’ll happen across the answer.
If it were horizontal, it would mean “I have to pee.” That’s all I have. Sorry
Hal, I did know about that site, and did poke around there unsuccessfully before I posted.
Best I can come up with is “beautiful”.
Name of the movie?
That or “pretty” would be my vote; moved in a circle in front of the face, but I believe the hand starts open and is closed during the circle.
I too would have to vote for pretty/beautiful. It is supposed to start with an open palm facing you and then end in a closed fist, but it makes a circle infront of the face.
I think you’ll have a greater chance of getting the right answer in GQ. I’ll move this there for you.
And my ASL classes are what, chopped liver?
Sign it, sign it!
You’ll have to load this. 
Victor Garber and the late Lynne Thigpen in Godspell. The gesture appears at 6:03 to 6:10 in this clip on YouTube.
My vote is it is not an ASL gesture at all. Just a made up move. As others said, the closest to an actual ASL gesture would be beautiful/attractive/good looking. But I don’t see how those words would apply to the context of the gesture in the clip.
Or it’s possible it’s a sign in BSL, ISL, LSF, Auslan, etc. I’m not familiar with any of those. Only took ASL classes.
Maybe it was just a made-up gesture. But thank you all for the suggestions.
Looking at the clip it looks like a kind of joky thumbing of the nose like that old cartoon boxer pose. Sort of “go get ‘em Jesus ol’ buddy.”
Wow, there were a lot of meaningless gestures in that clip… Even the counting was wrong… The guy went “one, two, six” and he and one of the women hugged…
The sign you were asking about sort of looked like a cross between “girl” and “drunk”… It was not really close to the sign for “beautiful”… I’m not sure why they’d hug over that - although it was the 60’s… 
I don’t know what you mean about “one, two, six.” There’s no dialogue at the point. Victor Garber raises one finger, Robin Lamont raises one finger. Victor raises a second finger, Robin raises a second finger. Victor raises a third finger, Robin raises a third finger. Then they clasp hands. It’s an echo of gestures they made earlier in the film during the song “Day by Day” (at 2:53 in the clip):
Day by day
O dear Lord
Three things I pray
To see thee more clearly
Love thee more dearly
Follow thee more nearly
Day by day
P.S. Godspell is from the seventies, not sixties, although it does have a sixties flower power to it.
They way that most people signal 3 is really a 6 in sign language. The correct 3 consists of thumb, forefinger, and middle finger. hold ing up your first 3 fingers (not thumb) is six. Here.