knack-kneed

English

Adjective

knack-kneed (comparative more knack-kneed, superlative most knack-kneed)

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.