"knee-crooking" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Compare bend the knee.",
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      "expansion": "knee-crooking (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2009, Terence Barnett Magness, The Brood of Time, page 378",
          "text": "With his usual dose of commonsense he recognized that nothing could really change the status quo, and all that a knee-crooking knave might do in protest was to sneak a line or two into his verse simply to let off steam […]",
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          "ref": "2022, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days",
          "text": "The Norman said nothing, but he did what the bystanders considered rather surprising in a knee-crooking Frenchman. Neither bending his body nor doffing his helmet, he folded his arms across his breast and looked straight into the Lucky One's eyes.",
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        "Obsequious; submissive."
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  "word": "knee-crooking"
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  "etymology_text": "Compare bend the knee.",
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        },
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  "word": "knee-crooking"
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