Definitions
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- adj. having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart
- adj. suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The last time I had let myself go so completely was with Tim, which still left me knockkneed in my own kitchen six years later, as I had discovered tonight.
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The door crashed open and the piano player made his ridiculous, knockkneed run for the sun.
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When the old farmer went up to him with knockkneed, rheumatic tread, inquiring, "Well, how goes it?" the architect would reply:
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You mean that knockkneed mother's darling who seems to be slightly crawsick?
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A few feet away he tried to read what was on the map, but, unable to do so, drew closer, pale-faced and knockkneed, and stared at the map and the little flags.
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After about an hour, Len turned his family’s knockkneed, powder blue Buick onto a dirt road, where he had to dodge potholes.
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You mean that knockkneed mother’s darling who seems to be slightly crawsick?
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But I'm going through with it, and I don't intend to look knockkneed, anyhow. "
yarb commented on the word knockkneed
Joyce, Ulysses: "You mean that knockkneed mother's darling who seems to be slightly crawsick?"
September 26, 2007