Meaning
Knock-kneed — having legs that angle inward so the knees touch or 'knock' together while the feet stay apart, the opposite of bow-foot (bandy-legged). A plain, descriptive word for the way a person's legs are set, it is sometimes said teasingly of someone's walk or stance, and it belongs to the everyday, frank Jamaican vocabulary of the body and its shapes. Neither cruel nor clinical, it simply names the inward-turned legs, one of the many plain body-descriptions the language makes without fuss.
Examples
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Di knock-knee gyal still play netball good.
The knock-kneed girl still plays netball well.
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Him knock-knee mek him walk look funny.
His knock-knees make his walk look odd.
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Bow-foot or knock-knee, wi all can dance.
Bow-legged or knock-kneed, we can all dance.
Origin
From 'knock' (the knees knocking) + 'knee'; knock-kneed, opposite of bow-foot. See [[bow-foot]].
How it’s used
Knock-kneed; opposite of 'bow-foot'. See [[bow-foot]].