"bow-legged" meaning in English

See bow-legged in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more bow-legged [comparative], most bow-legged [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} bow-legged (comparative more bow-legged, superlative most bow-legged)
  1. Having bowed legs, having legs bent noticeably outward at the knee Synonyms: bandy, bandy-legged, couldn't stop a pig in a passage [Yorkshire, idiomatic], bowlegged Coordinate_terms: bow-legged wi' brass, knock-kneed Translations (having bowed legs): φολκός (pholkós) (Ancient Greek), .sakang (Bikol Central), кривокрак (krivokrak) (Bulgarian), camatort (Catalan), garrell (Catalan), 羅圈腿 (Chinese Mandarin), 罗圈腿 (luóquāntuǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), hjulbenet (Danish), länkisäärinen (Finnish), trenco (Galician), zopo (Galician), zoupo (Galician), krummbeinig (German), o-beinig (German), bórach (Irish), camchosach (Irish), arkuadu (Kabuverdianu), arkuóde (Kabuverdianu), valgus (english: classical) (Latin), scambus (Latin), lōripēs (Latin), vatius (Latin), waehaka (Maori), turihaka (Maori), waewae hao (Maori), hjulbeint (Norwegian Bokmål), hjulbent (Norwegian Bokmål), hjulbeint (Norwegian Nynorsk), кривоно́гий (krivonógij) (Russian), косола́пый (kosolápyj) (Russian), но́ги колесо́м (nógi kolesóm) (Russian), balg-chasach (Scottish Gaelic), patizambo (Spanish), hjulbent (Swedish), sakang (Tagalog), coesgam [literary] (Welsh)

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          "lang": "Galician",
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          "code": "kea",
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          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "länkisäärinen"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "zopo"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "zoupo"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "krummbeinig"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "o-beinig"
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "code": "la",
      "english": "classical",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "valgus"
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    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "scambus"
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    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "lōripēs"
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    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "vatius"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "waehaka"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "turihaka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "waewae hao"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "hjulbeint"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "hjulbent"
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      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "krivonógij",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "кривоно́гий"
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "balg-chasach"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "patizambo"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
      "word": "hjulbent"
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      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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      "code": "cy",
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      "sense": "having bowed legs",
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