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knock-kneed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. Having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.
    • I called for the cheeses, and took them away in a cab. It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse. 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :
  2. Of a person or animal, suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga).

Coordinates

bow-legged · bandy-legged

Relateds

knock knee

Translations (34)

es zambo (suffering from genu valgum) · tl pakid (having knees abnormally close together) · pl koślawy (suffering from genu valgum) · gl zapexo (suffering from genu valgum) · ceb kimpi (suffering from genu valgum) · ceb kimpi (having knees abnormally close together) · fr cagneux (having knees abnormally close together) · es befo (suffering from genu valgum) · gl zambro (suffering from genu valgum) · da kalveknæet (having knees abnormally close together) · gl trenco (suffering from genu valgum) · he בֶּרֶךְ קְלוּבָה (having knees abnormally close together) · bcl piki (having knees abnormally close together) · nn kalvbeint (having knees abnormally close together) · nb kalvbent (having knees abnormally close together) · la varus (having knees abnormally close together) · gl crouvexo (suffering from genu valgum) · mi turi haka (having knees abnormally close together) · es zambo (having knees abnormally close together) · sv kobent (having knees abnormally close together) · gl trenco (having knees abnormally close together) · fi pihtipolvinen (suffering from genu valgum) · fi pihtipolvinen (having knees abnormally close together) · gl zapexo (having knees abnormally close together) · nl x-benen (having knees abnormally close together) · ceb kimpion (suffering from genu valgum) · gl carrancholas (suffering from genu valgum) · pl koślawy (having knees abnormally close together) · de x-beinig (having knees abnormally close together) · es zámbigo (having knees abnormally close together) · cs s nohama do x (suffering from genu valgum) · gl crouvexo (having knees abnormally close together) · tl piki (having knees abnormally close together) · nb kalvbeint (having knees abnormally close together)