| 单词 | baker-kneed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbaker-kneed b. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘having such a deformity, knock-kneed’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in †baker-kneed, baker-legged. Now rare.In quot. 1991 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of legs > having leglessc1390 bow-legged1552 crook-legged1580 shackle-hammed1592 baker-kneed1611 baker-legged1611 buckle-hammed1629 out-shinned1682 bandy-legged1688 crooked-legged1691 shackled-ham'd1733 badger-legged1738 tailor-legged1768 knock-kneed1774 scissor-legged1880 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Iarretier,..Baker-legd, that goes in at the knees. 1649 L. Willan Phrygian Fabulist sig. A5v Beeing of all men of that Age the most deform'd: Sharp-headed, flat-nos'd,..Baker-kneed, [etc.]. ?1714 E. Ward Whole Pleasures of Matrimony 27 He might go down, tho' he were blear-eyed, Baker-legged, or tut-mouthed; for in such a Case the Lass marries not him so much as his Fortune. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. xxii. 382 Curl was in person very tall and thin, an ungainly, aukward, white-faced man... He was splay-footed, and baker-kneed. 1857 H. Melville Confidence-Man xxii. 176 A round-backed, baker-kneed man, in a mean five-dollar suit. 1991 J. Caille Impetuous Bride ii. 26 She wasn't too tall or short, too fat or thin, nor was she baker-kneed or pockmarked or anything like that. < as lemmas |
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