knock-kneed

See also: knockkneed

English

Knock-kneed legs (valgus deformity)

Adjective

knock-kneed

1. (of the legs) Having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.
   • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] ‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (of a person or animal) Suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga).

Coordinate terms

• bow-legged, bandy-legged

Related terms

• knock knee

Translations

having knees abnormally close together

• Bikol Central: piki
• Danish: kalveknæet
• Dutch: x-benen (nl) pl
• Finnish: pihtipolvinen
• French: cagneux (fr)
• Galician: trenco (gl) m, crouvexo m, zapexo m
• German: x-beinig (de)
• Hebrew: בֶּרֶךְ קְלוּבָה f (berekh kluva)
• Latin: varus (classical)
• Maori: turi haka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalvbeint, kalvbent

  Nynorsk: kalvbeint

• Spanish: zambo (es)
• Swedish: kobent (sv)
• Tagalog: piki, pakid

suffering from genu valgum

• Finnish: pihtipolvinen
• Galician: trenco (gl) m, zambro m, crouvexo m, zapexo m, carrancholas m
• Spanish: befo (es), zambo (es)