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knack-kneed en · ADJ
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(UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, not-comparable) Alternative form of knock-kneed.
Otway was knack-kneed and according to village folk, cute and a dapster farmer, terms that Fane had taken to be scurrilous.
2011, Michael Sellers, An Outside Man, page 9:This filly race made the folks round them to flock, / But knack-kneed Mall Trollop came in for the smock.
1891, Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings, page 137:Knack-kneed and bent twa fauld; / He had a wife, and by my faith, / She was baith big and bauld.
1891, Andrew Wanless, Sketches and Anecdotes, page viii: