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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
Adverb
- Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo.
Exempel
- "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now."
- Girls take hold of the skirts; boys place the hands akimbo, bend forward from the waist, and bow.
- Men preferred one pose above all others, namely, the elbow akimbo.
- The man was standing akimbo.
- Otherwise, it is likely that she may be accosted as "dear" or "Sally,"—invited to take "a drop o' tea," or otherwise chaffed by rough women standing akimbo at street doors.
- ...and the other end window bearing the figure of a woman standing akimbo with her right hand touching her right temple.