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Meaning of akembo | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Archaic form of akimbo (“with hands on hips and elbows outward”).

alt-of, archaic, not-comparable

Examples

“She set her huge arms akembo”
“"What, ma'am!" placing her brawny arms akembo, "to fall into these fantigues and fantasies, and swound away, as a body may say, and all about a traitorish scape-grace the like of he![…]"”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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