ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Knack-kneed

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Knack-kneed is an adjective meaning (UK, dialect) Alternative form of knock-kneed.

Meaning

(UK, dialect) Alternative form of knock-kneed.

Example Sentences

Knack-kneed and bent twa fauld; / He had a wife, and by my faith, / She was baith big and bauld.
This filly race made the folks round them to flock, / But knack-kneed Mall Trollop came in for the smock.
Otway was knack-kneed and according to village folk, cute and a dapster farmer, terms that Fane had taken to be scurrilous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inkneed, knobbed, knockered, knocky, kneed, sock-knocking.

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