knobbly-kneed

I felt a strong primitive impulse to turn tail and run, and wished afterwards that I'd listened to the wisdom of pre-history, but somehow one doesn't easily equate knobbly-kneed hikers with positive danger.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

I can see them, can't you; knobbly-kneed fathers in natty little shorts carrying the picnic bag, mum following with a blaring transistor, squealing kids, yelling babies.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

"By the time you've finished preventing discrimination against the ugly, the short, the skinny, the bald, the knobbly-kneed, the flat-chested, and the stupid," Andrew Sullivan wrote in the London Sunday Times in 1999, "you're living in a totalitarian state."

Why looks are the last bastion of discrimination Deborah L. Rhode 2010

"By the time you've finished preventing discrimination against the ugly, the short, the skinny, the bald, the knobbly-kneed, the flat-chested, and the stupid," Andrew Sullivan wrote in the London Sunday Times in 1999, "you're living in a totalitarian state."

Why looks are the last bastion of discrimination 2010

As her shy, knobbly-kneed boyfriend Tonio, Juan Diego Flórez returned to wow us with those famous top Cs and pure, unsullied vocal gymnastics.

Tosca; La fille du régiment; Takacs Quartet 2010

Then he ran through various incarnations - frequently a knobbly-kneed Boy Scout, or a smirking US poodle, until he ended up as the swivel-eyed, blood-splattered zombie that cartoonists portray him as today.

How mad is Tony Blair? Rachel 2006

Then he ran through various incarnations - frequently a knobbly-kneed Boy Scout, or a smirking US poodle, until he ended up as the swivel-eyed, blood-splattered zombie that cartoonists portray him as today.

Archive 2006-09-01 Rachel 2006

I felt a strong primitive impulse to turn tail and run, and wished afterwards that I'd listened to the wisdom of pre-history, but somehow one doesn't easily equate knobbly-kneed hikers with positive danger.

To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

Chisholm grabbed a cigarette packet, sketched a picture of "a knobbly-kneed boy with dark spiky hair" and a comic strip legend was born.

BBC News - Home 2011

Visitors to Fakenham Racecourse on Sunday had a big surprise, when sleek thoroughbreds were joined by four knobbly-kneed camels as the Middle East's favourite sport came to Norfolk.

Home 2010