Meaning of knack-kneed | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

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

“This filly race made the folks round them to flock, / But knack-kneed Mall Trollop came in for the smock.”

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

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