You the bowlegged woman and I'm a knock-kneed man. From Wordnik.com. [At Pepper's Hideout, A South Side Party To Remember] Reference
Whitaker is knock-kneed - my father was bowlegged. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: Amin's son found Last King of Scotland degrading] Reference
"Two dollars on the knock-kneed guy," shouted another. From Wordnik.com. [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference
What had become of that knock-kneed horse wrangler from. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Figure knock-kneed walks awkwardly with one foot tiptoe. From Wordnik.com. [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference
This knock-kneed position generally develops around age 2. From Wordnik.com. [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference
A lone female addict slogged along in a knock-kneed swaying walk. From Wordnik.com. [Cat & Mouse]
He is slue-footed, knock-kneed, and bends over a little when walking. From Wordnik.com. [The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes] Reference
Slow and sure must the knock-kneed chewer of cuds step from log to log. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
Attention knock-kneed shoppers: This will only accentuate your affliction. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – Skants] Reference
Of all the knock-kneed, wall-eyed chunks of locoed craziness, you're the worst. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers] Reference
If she were simply knock-kneed; but, as Bertie says, she's knock-ankled as well. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919] Reference
His flumes were knock-kneed and bow-legged, and in places they had no legs at all. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
Laroche was polite but firm with the knock-kneed, freckled creature who served them. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicate Storm]
I had a tendency to walk knock-kneed, which made my hips sway and my back end twitch. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
I looked up and saw Cindy, sitting knock-kneed on a stack of files outside my office. From Wordnik.com. [3rd Degree]
You dog-eared knock-kneed bleary-eyed paint, if you don't swing wide I'll skin you alive!. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers] Reference
And you, Westfield, proud as Punch of your knock-kneed, bribe-taking cowards of policemen. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
ANTIGONUS II GONATAS (knock-kneed?) was driven from Macedon by Pyrrhus of Epirus (274). From Wordnik.com. [c. Macedon and Greece, to 146 B.C.E] Reference
British Government a somewhat knock-kneed institution whose joints had ceased to hold together. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
The knock-kneed kid with the raccoon eye makeup was making her way across the street toward them. From Wordnik.com. [You Suck]
"There I am," he wrote, "knock-kneed and toddler-bellied, not reaching up to my granddad's waist.". From Wordnik.com. [The readers' room: what you thought of G2 this week] Reference
I got to know that knock-kneed giant well, and took an enormous pride in my acquaintance with him. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Even the knock-kneed nags who pulled their cranky carriagework knew how to avoid Famia's ministrations. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
I remember the first time I ever graced Lane's halls as a knock-kneed 8th grader back around February of 1988. From Wordnik.com. [Esther J. Cepeda: Economic Tier Scheme for CPS Selective Enrollment Schools: Go Back to the Drawing Board] Reference
Passing a hand over his forehead, the worried drill-sergeant paused for breath as he surveyed the knock-kneed recruit. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
Two years ago, of course, it was only four, thanks to breaking his leg off a brainless divil of a knock-kneed spalpeen. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
Your thighs admit an obligingly wider space, an inward slope to the thickened thighs, that gives an almost knock-kneed appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The cries of the caravane, the “knock-kneed” plover of Egypt, yellow-beaked and black-eyed, resounded in the more barren belts. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Mark looked after his youngest charge, watched the ungainly, knock-kneed gait that stemmed from undernourishment, and visibly grieved. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
'He is short,' he writes, 'very much bent, slightly knock-kneed, and as ill-dressed a man for a gentleman as you will find in London. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
He was a gigantic Swede, who, had he not been rather knock-kneed and splay-footed, might have served for the model of Samson or a Hercules. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
His skating isn't pretty, in fact it's a bit knock-kneed. From Wordnik.com. [Hockey's Future] Reference
No, I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Originally, "Robot" referred to Martin's odd, pigeon-toed, knock-kneed running style. From Wordnik.com. [statesman.com - Highschool] Reference
Company, trying to get the doctors to state that hobble skirts were making women knock-kneed!. From Wordnik.com. [Roast Beef, Medium] Reference
Besides being utterly stiff-kneed and knock-kneed, it was really nothing but a moving skeleton. From Wordnik.com. [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference
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