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
It belonged to this scrawny, knock-kneed eighth grader who had tagged along with his older brother, who was eating all the slices and dominating all the conversations and somehow, it seemed, doing both at once.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2014
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
He held them splayed like the knock-kneed legs of an ostrich while picking up a large chunk of sauce-coated eggplant.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
