Knack-kneed

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of knock-kneed. UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal, not-comparable

    "Knack-kneed and bent twa fauld; / He had a wife, and by my faith, / She was baith big and bauld."

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"Knack-kneed and bent twa fauld; / He had a wife, and by my faith, / She was baith big and bauld."

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