knee-high

See also: kneehigh and knee high

English

Etymology

From knee +‎ high (adjective).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

knee-high (not comparable)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knee,‎ high: reaching to the height of a person's knees.
    Coordinate terms: chest-high, waist-high, waist-deep, ankle-high, ankle-deep
    Near-synonym: knee-deep
    knee-high by the Fourth of July
    The corn is knee-high.
  2. (figurative) Very young.
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 207:
      John Fred Gourrier had been listening to Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and the Spiders since he was knee-high.

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Noun

knee-high (plural knee-highs)

  1. (US, usually in the plural) A sock or stocking that reaches to the knees; chiefly, women's nylon stockings that end slightly above the knee and are supported by garter belts.
    Synonym: (UK) pop sock
    Coordinate term: ankle-high

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References

  1. ^ “knee-high, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024; “knee-high, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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