Excerpt from Contested Etymologies: In the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat Akimbo. - Professor Skeat, in his Appendix, gives up the derivation from on-eam-bow, zie., literally, in-a-bend-bend, in favour of the Icel. Keng-bogz'fm, bent into the form of a staple, crooked, from kengr, a staple, bend, bight. But this word does not appear ever to have been applied to the posi tion of the arms in the sense of akz'mbo, and it is extremely difficult to suppose that such a word could have been caught up out of Icel. Or Norse ...
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Excerpt from Contested Etymologies: In the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat Akimbo. - Professor Skeat, in his Appendix, gives up the derivation from on-eam-bow, zie., literally, in-a-bend-bend, in favour of the Icel. Keng-bogz'fm, bent into the form of a staple, crooked, from kengr, a staple, bend, bight. But this word does not appear ever to have been applied to the posi tion of the arms in the sense of akz'mbo, and it is extremely difficult to suppose that such a word could have been caught up out of Icel. Or Norse into E., and used exclusively in a special application which it never had in its native language. Moreover, the derivation does not agree with the form aleem boll, vouched by Cotgrave and Torriano. Se quarrir, to square it, carry'his arms akem???o/a - Anse, the handle or ear of a pot, cup, &c. Les bras courb???s en anse, with arms akembo! - Cot'. With arms set on bemboll, le braccia in croce. - Torr. 1677250, or kembow, and kezzebow might well be developed out of kembo/z, but hardly the converse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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