英语词汇“akimbo”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

akimbo

/əˈkɪmbəʊ

adverb

1With hands on the hips and elbows turned outwards: she stood with arms akimbo, frowning at the small boy...

She briefly imagined his pose: arms akimbo, hips jutting outward in impatience, thick black brows lowered ominously over angry eyes, mouth set in disapproval.
From these imperatives spring the iconographies and situations that animate this suite: the large sitting figure, the figure standing with its arms akimbo, the man lost in a downpour.
One client told me that when he asked whether he had been breast-fed, his mother, arms akimbo, warned him off with a glare.

1.1(With reference to limbs) flung out widely or haphazardly: he collapsed on the bed, legs akimbo...

Dale was in our bedroom, limbs akimbo atop our massive new bed.
I would have a great time flailing round to this song, limbs akimbo, mouthing all the words.
Several white-sheeted bodies lay on the ground, limbs akimbo, eyes wildly open, with the look and feel of death permeating the surrounding area.

Origin

Late Middle English: from in kenebowe in Middle English, probably from Old Norse.

You might think that the odd-looking word akimbo, ‘with hands on the hips and elbows turned outwards’, derives from some exotic language. In fact it appeared in medieval English in the form in kenebowe or a kembow and was probably an alteration of an Old Norse phrase meaning ‘bent in a curve, like a horseshoe’.

单词	akimbo
释义	akimbo /əˈkɪmbəʊ / adverb 1With hands on the hips and elbows turned outwards: she stood with arms akimbo, frowning at the small boy... She briefly imagined his pose: arms akimbo, hips jutting outward in impatience, thick black brows lowered ominously over angry eyes, mouth set in disapproval. From these imperatives spring the iconographies and situations that animate this suite: the large sitting figure, the figure standing with its arms akimbo, the man lost in a downpour. One client told me that when he asked whether he had been breast-fed, his mother, arms akimbo, warned him off with a glare. 1.1(With reference to limbs) flung out widely or haphazardly: he collapsed on the bed, legs akimbo... Dale was in our bedroom, limbs akimbo atop our massive new bed. I would have a great time flailing round to this song, limbs akimbo, mouthing all the words. Several white-sheeted bodies lay on the ground, limbs akimbo, eyes wildly open, with the look and feel of death permeating the surrounding area. Origin Late Middle English: from in kenebowe in Middle English, probably from Old Norse. You might think that the odd-looking word akimbo, ‘with hands on the hips and elbows turned outwards’, derives from some exotic language. In fact it appeared in medieval English in the form in kenebowe or a kembow and was probably an alteration of an Old Norse phrase meaning ‘bent in a curve, like a horseshoe’. Rhymes bimbo, limbo
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akimbo

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