The word "bowlegged" is correct in written English.
It is used to describe a condition where a person's legs curve outward at the knees, often seen in certain physical conditions or in animals. Example: "The horse was bowlegged, making it difficult for it to run smoothly." Alternatives include "knock-kneed" or "bandy-legged."
She cooked as good as ever, but she was a bomb waiting to go off, standing bowlegged at the stove and talking ugly about how much she did for us.
David has a lanky, wiry build and an athletic, slightly bowlegged walk.
The older man, however, bent and bowlegged as he was, made my happiness his own.
Their gait was distinctive — an almost bowlegged, gunslinger's waddle, a result, presumably, of the stuffed pouches and pockets that hung like saddlebags from their pants.
For he grew up to look like a duck, fat and juicy, with a potbelly and a shovel-face and a bowlegged hunch.
On a brilliant spring day last week in backcountry Greenwich, the art collector Peter Brant strolled into his new museum — the Brant Foundation Art Study Center — with the slightly bowlegged gait of a man who has spent a lot of time on horseback.
And, even now, Ansari's fans often hail him with a singsong greeting: "Raaaaaaaandy!" Ansari is skinny, splayfooted, and slightly bowlegged.
When you first see Steck, it is hard to believe that he can run any distance at all: he is almost comically bowlegged.
Tall (six feet four inches), ungraceful, and a bit bowlegged, he aims to batter opponents into submission with his powerful serve and windmilling ground strokes.
"In fact, Jones — tall, athletic, with a deep voice and just a tad bowlegged (a dead ringer for Burt Lancaster) — seemed the perfect choice".
He couldn't be a lawyer, he writes, because in men's suits he looked like an ogre: "short, bald, big-nosed, beady-eyed, bowlegged".
