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knee-high

adj
/ˌniːˈhaɪ/UK/ˌniˈhaɪ/US

Etymology

From knee + high (adjective).

  1. derived from *kewk-✻ — “to bend; crooked”
  2. inherited from *hauhaz✻ — “high”
  3. inherited from *hauh✻ — “high”
  4. inherited from hēah — “high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”
  5. inherited from high
  6. compounded as knee-high — “knee + high”

Definitions

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knee, high: reaching to the height of a person's knees.

    • Near-synonym: knee-deep
    • knee-high by the Fourth of July
    • The corn is knee-high.

  2. Very young.

    • John Fred Gourrier had been listening to Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and the Spiders since he was knee-high.

  3. A sock or stocking that reaches to just below the knees.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA