knack-kneed

A form of knock-kneed — Having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.

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adjectiveknack-kneed (not comparable)
  1. UKalternativedialectalnot comparableAlternative form of knock-kneed.

    Knack-kneed and bent twa fauld; / He had a wife, and by my faith, / She was baith big and bauld.

    1891, Andrew Wanless, Sketches and Anecdotes, page viii
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    This filly race made the folks round them to flock, / But knack-kneed Mall Trollop came in for the smock.

    1891, Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings, page 137

    Otway was knack-kneed and according to village folk, cute and a dapster farmer, terms that Fane had taken to be scurrilous.

    2011, Michael Sellers, An Outside Man, page 9
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