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knockkneed

knockkneed 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 knockkneed

What is knockkneed the alternative form of?
Knockkneed is the alternative form of knock-kneed.

Words near knockkneed in the dictionary

  1. knockingly
  2. knockings
  3. knockins
  4. knockit
  5. knockits
  6. knockkneed
  7. knockless
  8. Knocklong
  9. Knockloughrim
  10. knockmeter
  11. knockmeters

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