knotty-kneed

Updated: July 24, 2026

A knotty-kneed youth sitting high on a donkey, both amuleted against the evil eye, chewed three purplish-feet of sugar-cane, which made one envious as well as voluptuously homesick, though the sugar-cane of Egypt is not to be compared with that of Bombay.

Rudyard Kipling - Letters of Travel (1892-1913)