knock-kneed
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- adjective
- /ˈnɑkˌnid/
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genu valgo
- Many children are knock-kneed as they develop, causing their knees to touch while their ankles remain apart.
- knock-kneed legs
- slightly knock-kneed
Examples
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Like she's knock-kneed and pigeon-toed, and when she walks she makes a clicking sound?
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By changing my shape to make my knees just ever so slightly knock-kneed, that stopped happening and I was able to dance just fine.
Blog text (21) -
The guy was standing knock-kneed in his front yard, holding a quarter chicken by the end of the drumstick.
Fiction book (1995) -
Don't look at me, I'm knock-kneed.
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Children between the ages of 3 and 8 years commonly walk with a 'knock-kneed' gait.
Academic text (2015) -
She was a little knock-kneed, and this slight imperfection moved Zeke.
Fiction book (2001) -
But he would probably have argued that he had no use for a rider who wasn't physically up to the challenge of riding their stallion, any more than he would be interested in purchasing a swaybacked, knock-kneed horse.
Fiction book (2001) -
Unlike Lyon Benjamin, who turned out to be an inturned wisp of a man, pigeon-toed, knock-kneed, cross-eyed, and baldly young, we could have passed for cousins.
Fiction book (1995) -
A camel stands about 7 feet tall and 10 feet long, weighing approximately 990 pounds packed mostly into its middle; humpbacked, barrel-bellied, thick-lipped, spindly-legged, and knock-kneed, it is not likely to win a beauty contest.
Academic text (2003) -
They were tired and cumbersome, a pair of knock-kneed elephants trying to dance on their own tusks, twisting and gyrating clumsily until they fell exhausted into his lap.
Fiction book (1999)
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Etymology
Knock-kneed comes from the picture of knees that 'knock' together. It joins knock ('to hit') and knee ('the joint in the middle of your leg'), so someone who is knock-kneed has knees that bend inward and often touch or come very close when they stand or walk.