- keng-boginn
- part. crooked.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.
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Akimbo — is a human body position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward, or bent/bowed in a more general sense Fact|date=September 2007 (e.g. the sailor sat with his legs akimbo ).OriginsThe word s origins are murky. The term … Wikipedia
akimbo — /euh kim boh/, adj., adv. with hand on hip and elbow bent outward: to stand with arms akimbo. [1375 1425; late ME in kenebowe < ON *i keng boginn bent into a crook (i in, keng acc. of kengr hook, boginn ptp. of bjuga to bend)] * * * … Universalium
akimbo — a|kim|bo [əˈkımbəu US bou] adj [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: in kenbow, on kenbow (15 17 centuries), probably from an unrecorded Old Norse i keng boginn bent in a curve ] 1.) (with) arms akimbo with your hands on your ↑hips so that your elbows point… … Dictionary of contemporary English
akimbo — [15] Akimbo was borrowed from Old Norse. Its original English spelling (which occurs only once, in the Tale of Beryn 1400) was in kenebowe, which suggests a probable Old Norse precursor *i keng boginn (never actually discovered), meaning… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
akimbo — [15] Akimbo was borrowed from Old Norse. Its original English spelling (which occurs only once, in the Tale of Beryn 1400) was in kenebowe, which suggests a probable Old Norse precursor *i keng boginn (never actually discovered), meaning… … Word origins
