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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--akimbo This week's theme: adjectives used postpositively. akimbo (uh-KIM-bo) adjective With hands on hips and elbows turned outwards. [Of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "The goal also sent goalkeeper Bakalo Silumbu into tears, who was seen with arms akimbo and mouth agape between the goal posts." Francis Tayanjah-Phiri; Chess Boss Sponsors Football Tourney; The Daily Times (Blantyre, Malawi); Nov 22, 2006. X-Bonus Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)

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