| 单词 | baker's knee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbaker's knee a. In popular names for deformities of the leg or foot traditionally associated with bakers, esp. genu valgum (knock-knee), as in †baker feet, †baker-knees, †baker-legs; also in the genitive, as in baker's knee, baker's legs. Now chiefly historical. [Compare German Bäckerbeine, plural, literally ‘baker-legs’ (1818 or earlier).] Sometimes applied esp. when the condition affects one leg only (cf. quot. 1871). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of legs baker-legs1611 baker-kneesa1806 knock-knees1826 bandiness1841 genu valgum1887 genu varum1887 the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of legs > leg stump lega1568 shackle-hams1603 baker's legs1611 badger legs1656 cheese-cutter1681 K-leg1842 jake leg1930 jake walk1930 the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of foot club-foota1552 baker feet1656 valgus1800 varus1800 inversion1825 talipes1842 pommel foot1857 inturn1860 talus1864 flat-foot1870 spurious valgus1872 flat-footedness1882 Friedreich('s) foot1940 the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > other deformities eversion1567 exenteration1831 ankyloglossia1848 baker's knee1871 mal-insertion1904 malrotation1932 hole in (the) heart1958 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. ii. sig. C4v Wil womens tounges (like Bakers legs) neuer go straight.] 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Iambes ennelées, Baker-legs. 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty (1662) 79 The unhandsome warpings of bow Leggs and baker Feet. 1659 Lady Alimony v. v. sig. Kiv His puny Baker-legs. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 94 Knocked or baker knees. 1871 Figure Training 39 Baker's knee, as it is called, or an inclining inwards of the right knee-joint until it closely resembles the right side of a letter K, is the almost certain penalty of habitually bearing any burden of bulk in the right hand. 1945 W. R. Trask tr. A. Granach There goes Actor xxviii. 172 I stood every night on the finest stage in Germany with the best actors in the country, but I stood there on my crooked baker's legs. 2001 L. Summers Bound to Please iii. 79 Children's corsetry still concerned itself with the prevention of the ‘evils of early neglect’; these being such disfiguring ailments as Baker's Knee, curvature of the spine, a lounging gait and general stooping. < as lemmas |
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