“knock、kneed”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

knock-kneed

释义

ˈknock-kneed, a.
[f. prec. + -ed².]
a. Having the legs bent inwards so that the knees knock together in walking. (The opposite of bandy-legged.)
1774in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1911) VI. 41 Charles Blundell, an Englishman,..a very slender made fellow much knock-kneed, with light brown hair very short.1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 720 Parents, whose children from bad nursing are become knock-kneed.1838Dickens O. Twist xlii, Those long-limbed, knock-kneed, shambling, bony people.1862Sala Seven Sons I. vii. 142 The knock-kneed horse.
b. fig. Halting; feeble.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. iv, It was constitutionally a knock-knee'd mind.1887Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. i. 5 So stumbling and knock-kneed is his [Wyatt's] verse.1898Westm. Gaz. 7 Dec. 4/1 There are no shambling, knock-kneed verses.

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