knock-kneed

1. 1.

   having the knees abnormally close together and the ankles wide apart

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Questions about knock-kneed

What does knock-kneed mean?

knock-kneed means "having the knees abnormally close together and the ankles wide apart".

How many syllables are in knock-kneed?

knock-kneed has 2 syllables and divides as knock-k-need under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is knock-kneed a common word?

knock-kneed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.