KNEE
ADJECTIVES
► BAKER-KNEED knock-kneed → 1652
► BAKER-LEGGED knock-kneed → 18C sl.
► BATTLE KNEED having thick knees → 1743 US
► BUCK-KNEED having the knees turned inward; knock-kneed → 1967 Amer. dial.
► CAMEL-KNEED having hard or callous knees like those of a camel, caused by much kneeling → 1801
► DISH-WHEELED adj. knock-kneed; said of a man or an animal → 1968 Amer. dial.
► IN-KNEED knock-kneed, having the knees bent inwards → 1795 Sc.
► KNUCKLE-KNEED having prominent or bulging knees → 1865
► KNULE-KNEED having enlarged or protuberant knee joints, knock-kneed → 1760 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NAP-KNEED knock-kneed → B1900 Eng. dial.
► TAILOR-LEGGED having the knees bent by sitting cross-legged → 1767
NOUNS
► BAKER LEGS knock-knees → 1780 Sc.
► BENDER the knee → 1925 sl., orig.
► BISCUITS (AND CHEESE) knees → 20C rhyming sl.
► CECIL GEE the human knee → 1990s rhyming sl.
► CHART AND EVANS knees → 20C Royal Navy sl.
► CHRISTMAS TREE the human knee → 1998 UK rhyming sl.
► DALLY-BONES ► DOLLY-BONES the knees → 1867 Eng. dial.
► HAMBONE the knee or thigh → 1908 Amer. dial.
► KNEE-BOARD the part of the leg at the back of the knee; the back of the thigh or hough → c1425 obs.
► LID OF THE KNEE the kneecap or patella → 1899 Sc.
► MARROWBONES the knees → 1532 jocular usage
► MARROWS the knees → 1531 jocular usage
► MOUSE a sharp pain in one’s knee → 1959 Amer. dial.
► PAN the patella or knee-pan → 1657 obs.
► PRAYER BONES the knees → 1878 Amer. dial.
► PRAYER-HANDLES the knees → L19 African-American sl.
► ROBERT E. (LEE) the knee → 1992 rhyming sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ANTHONY CUFFIN a man who has knock-knees → 19C sl.
VERBS
► DEADLEG to knee someone in the thigh, thus causing a numb feeling in the leg → Bk1990 Brit. sl.
► KNOCK ANTHONY to walk knock-kneed → 18C Eng. sl.
► KNUCKLE in golf: to bend the knee inward → 1909
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