knack-kneed

English

Adjective

knack-kneed (not comparable)

  1. (UK, dialect) Alternative form of knock-kneed.
    • 1891, Andrew Wanless, Sketches and Anecdotes, page viii:
      Knack-kneed and bent twa fauld; / He had a wife, and by my faith, / She was baith big and bauld.
    • 1891, Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings, page 137:
      This filly race made the folks round them to flock, / But knack-kneed Mall Trollop came in for the smock.
    • 2011, Michael Sellers, An Outside Man, page 9:
      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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