spavined

1. "He thinks as he goes along"– very charming, charming indeed, as Borowski would say, but really very painful, particularly when the thinker is nothing but a spavined horse.
   不过也实在非常痛苦，尤其是，这位思想家只不过是一匹跛马。

adj

1. (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint