Both Uses of
akimbo
in
Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Here the akimbo Skeleton one might play like a piccolo; here the Blimp who could be punctured every night, pumped up at dawn; here the midget known as The Wart who could be mailed parcel post dirt-cheap; and next to him an even littler accident of cell and time, a Dwarf so small and perched in such a way you could not see his face behind the cards clenched before him in arthritic and tremulous oak-gnarled fingers.†
Part 1
- And what they saw was something akimbo and arustle in the down-hung wicker carriage.†
Part 2 *
Definition:
with hands on hips and elbows extending outward