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knack-kneed

knack-kneed is the alternative form of knock-kneed.

Meaning of knock-kneed

Adjective

knock-kneed

  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).

Questions about knack-kneed

What is knack-kneed the alternative form of?
Knack-kneed is the alternative form of knock-kneed.

Words near knack-kneed in the dictionary

  1. Knable
  2. Knables
  3. knabs
  4. Knabstrupper
  5. knack
  6. knack-kneed
  7. knacked
  8. knacker
  9. knacker's yard
  10. knackered
  11. knackeredness

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