Akimbo
November 11, 2009
Akimbo
–adjective, adverb
with hand on hip and elbow bent outward: to stand with arms akimbo
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME in kenebowe < ON *i keng boginn bent into a crook (i in, keng acc. of kengr hook, boginn ptp. of bjūga to bend)