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knock-kneed

knock-kneed adjective: having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.

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).

knock-kneed meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

knock-kneed in Tamil

கெண்டை அடிப்பு, சோடுதட்டல்

knock-kneed in Tagalog

having knees abnormally close together
piki, pakid

Questions about knock-kneed

What does knock-kneed mean?
Knock-kneed means having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.
What is knock-kneed in Tamil?
Knock-kneed in Tamil is கெண்டை அடிப்பு, சோடுதட்டல். See Knock-kneed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is knock-kneed?
Knock-kneed is an adjective.

Words near knock-kneed in the dictionary

  1. knock-down-drag-out
  2. knock-down-drag-outs
  3. knock-for-knock agreement
  4. knock-for-knock agreements
  5. knock-knee
  6. knock-kneed
  7. knock-knees
  8. knock-knock
  9. knock-knock burglaries
  10. knock-knock burglary
  11. knock-knock ginger

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