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# Ahem
Akimbo: hands on hips with elbows pointing out

/pedant
(I helped save b3ta! MizEmma, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:19, archived)
# I went and looked
in the dictionary to contradict you with the true meaning...but you're right.


I HATE it when that happens.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:23, archived)
# I know. Legs akimbo is such a fine
phrase it really ought to have your meaning instead.
Why not start a petition to have the definition changed?
(I helped save b3ta! MizEmma, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:27, archived)
# or
akimbo
adj : (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body; "a tailor sitting with legs akimbo"; "stood with arms akimbo"

/ultra pedant
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:27, archived)
# Really? I've never seen the legs
definition before. Bovine will be pleased. Though it sounds like it means crossed legs which I don't think is quite what he had in mind.
(I helped save b3ta! MizEmma, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:29, archived)
# Neither had I
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=akimbo&r=67
definition number three.
However, The OED has your definition, and you are therefore entirely right and I withdraw the above completely and will birch myself for my sins.
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:33, archived)
# Oh no you don't
*snatches birch away*
that's my job ;)
(I helped save b3ta! MizEmma, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:41, archived)
# sorry
touches toes...
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:43, archived)
# pervert
(I helped save b3ta! MizEmma, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:49, archived)
# only the
best perverts are here...
(I helped save b3ta! vulga is a foul mouthed cunt, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:52, archived)
# I was
only tying my shoelace...
(I helped save b3ta! L-Space - scientia sapientes vocat., Wed 29 Oct 2003, 13:54, archived)