0 If a person's arms are akimbo, they are bent at the elbows (= the middle part of the arms where they bend) with the hands on the hips: --
After a preparatory dance, the dancer prepares and addresses the bar, lowering and leaning back their body while balancing on feet akimbo with knees extended backwards.
The forms "akembo" and "akimbo" are found in the 18th century, with "akimbo" gradually becoming the standard.
The seal character for "liu" suggests the arms akimbo posture.
However, there is no extant form of "akimbo" spelled with "cam"; and the earliest form of the word, "kenebowe", is a long way from "cam".
He laughs heartily when villains and foes fall beneath his heavy hand of justice, and he stands triumphantly akimbo when the danger has passed.
The artist showed men and women in tenements and streets, gossiping, with arms akimbo, that his comic approach exaggerated.
Said entrance is indeed grand when she turns her ankle and bounces down the steps with legs widely akimbo.
