bow-legged

See also: bowlegged

English

Bowed legs (varus deformity)

Alternative forms

• bowlegged

Adjective

bow-legged (comparative more bow-legged, superlative most bow-legged)

1. Having bowed legs, having legs bent noticeably outward at the knee

Synonyms

• bandy, bandy-legged
• couldn't stop a pig in a passage (Yorkshire, idiomatic)

Coordinate terms

• bow-legged wi' brass
• knock-kneed

Translations

having bowed legs

• Bikol Central:.sakang (bcl)
• Bulgarian: кривокрак (krivokrak)
• Catalan: camatort (ca), garrell
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羅圈腿／罗圈腿 (zh) (luóquāntuǐ)

• Danish: hjulbenet
• Finnish: länkisäärinen (fi)
• Galician: trenco (gl), zopo, zoupo
• German: krummbeinig, o-beinig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: φολκός (pholkós)

• Irish: bórach, camchosach
• Kabuverdianu: arkuadu, arkuóde
• Latin: valgus (classical); scambus, lōripēs, vatius
• Maori: waehaka, turihaka, waewae hao
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjulbeint, hjulbent

  Nynorsk: hjulbeint

• Old English: ġehylċed
• Polish: krzywonogi (pl), szpotawy
• Romanian: crăcănat (ro)
• Russian: кривоно́гий (ru) (krivonógij), косола́пый (ru) (kosolápyj), но́ги колесо́м (nógi kolesóm) (predicate)
• Scottish Gaelic: balg-chasach
• Spanish: arqueado (es), patizambo (es)
• Swedish: hjulbent (sv)
• Tagalog: sakang
• Welsh: coesgam (cy) (literary)