Lexicographical Neighbors of Kemboed
Literary usage of Kemboed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"1 may here add that Richardson actually uses kembo as a verb. ' Oons, madam, said
he, and he kemboed his arms, and strutted up to me. ..."
2. The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical by Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld, Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (1820)
"Why that's not ill said—But kemboed arms, my lord! are you not sorry for such an
air! And Oons! are you not sorry for such a word ? and for such looks too ..."
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