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    If a person is knock-kneed, their knees lean in towards each other, so the knees sit closer than the ankles. When they stand with their feet a little apart, the knees may almost touch — the old picture is that the knees knock together. The opposite shape is bow-legged, where the knees stay wide and the legs look like a bow. Quite a few children look a bit knock-kneed and then grow straighter; in adults it can just be the way their body is built. It is a body-shape word, a little old-fashioned and blunt, not a kind nickname. Doctors have a more technical name for the same shape, but ordinary English still says knock-kneed.

組成knock + kneed: from the picture of the knees knocking against each other. Kneed here just means 'having knees of that kind'.

同家族的字

  • kneethe joint; knock-kneed describes how the knees sit
  • knockfrom the picture of the knees knocking together

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

knock-kneedadj

  • 1

    medicinepathologysciencesHaving the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.

    • 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

    medicinepathologysciencesOf a person or animal, suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga).

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