To Kimbaw (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

To Kimbaw

To trick, cheat or cozen; also to beat or to bully. Let’s kimbaw the cull; let’s bully the fellow. To set one’s arms a-kimbaw, vulgarly pronounced a-kimbo, is to rest one’s hands on the hips, keeping the elbows square, and sticking out from the body; an insolent bullying attitude. Cant.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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