knock-kneed

Definitions

1. Having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.
2. Of a person or animal, suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga).

Equivalents

Examples

“I called for the cheeses, and took them away in a cab. It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse.”

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