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Knock-kneed. World English Historical Dictionary

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Knock-kneed. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2025. Knock-kneed a. [f. prec. + -ED2.] Having the legs bent inwards so that the knees knock together in walking. (The opposite of bandy-legged.)

1 1806.  W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., IV. 720. Parents, whose children from bad nursing are become knock-kneed.

2 1838.  Dickens, O. Twist, xlii. Those long-limbed, knock-kneed, shambling, bony people.

3 1862.  Sala, Seven Sons, I. vii. 142. The knock-kneed horse.

4   b.  fig. Halting; feeble.

5 1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., III. iv. It was constitutionally a knock-knee’d mind.

6 1887.  Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., i. 5. So stumbling and knock-kneed is his [Wyatt’s] verse.

7 1898.  Westm. Gaz., 7 Dec., 4/1. There are no shambling, knock-kneed verses.

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