单词 | akimbo |
释义 | a·kim·bo (ə-kĭmbō) adv. In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward: children standing akimbo by the fence. adj. 1. Placed in such a way as to have the hands on the hips and the elbows bowed outward: children standing with arms akimbo. 2. Being in a bent, bowed, or arched position: "There he remained, dead to the world, limbs akimbo, until we left" (Alex Shoumatoff). [Middle English in kenebowe (perhaps originally "in jug-handles, bent like the handles of a jug" ) : in, in; see IN1 + kenebowe (kene- perhaps from or akin to Old French chane, kane, quenne, jug, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle English canne, jar, pot; see CAN2 + bowe, bow, bend; see BOW3).] |
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