knock-kneed
adj1
Medicine, Pathology, Sciences 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 […] :
- Related terms
- knock knee
- Coordinate terms
- bow-legged, bandy-legged