What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?
What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?
What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?
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Akimbo
It's an honest-to-goodness English word and not derived from French, Latin, Greek or anything else, like a lot of the words here. Yes, it looks like it might be from an African language, but it's a squashed form of "in keen bow" meaning "well bent" or "crooked".
I always assumed it was a loan word from Japanese. TIL.