akembo

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English

Adjective

akembo (not comparable)

  1. Archaic form of akimbo (with hands on hips and elbows outward).
    • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: S Richardson;  , →OCLC:
      She set her huge arms akembo
    • 1825, Ephraim Hardcastle (William Henry Pyne), The Twenty-Ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration, volume 1, page 14:
      "What, ma'am!" placing her brawny arms akembo, "to fall into these fantigues and fantasies, and swound away, as a body may say, and all about a traitorish scape-grace the like of he! [] "