knockkneedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

knock-kneed

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

     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. (medicine, pathology) Of a person or animal, suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga).