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knack-kneed

adj

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of knock-kneed.

    • 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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