knock-knee
noun
inward curvature of the legs, causing the knees to knock together in walking.
knock-kneed
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a word derived from
knock-knee.
Example Sentences
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Pattinson has incredible physical control over both 17’s slack-jawed, knock-kneed cartoon and his identical opposite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
The tower would appear to float one floor above the pavement, which is to say it would become knock-kneed and top-heavy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2017
Mr. Roberts returns for a knock-kneed solo — there is, horrors, a silent scream — while, in another scene, Ghrai DeVore and Marcus Jarrell Willis add slapstick with a grating laughing duet.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2013
But that last sentence might apply more to those using the open web to foment rebellion and uprising in the Middle East and Africa than the next gang of knock-kneed misanthropes lamenting their royalty streams.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012
She felt as though she had come once more to a wholly new country, where certain heavy girls dragged their feet, almost knock-kneed.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
