knock-kneed
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Adjective
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- (of the legs) Having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.
- 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] [1]:
- 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.
- (of a person or animal) Suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga).
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[edit]having knees abnormally close together
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