knee-high

See also: kneehigh and knee high

English

Etymology

knee +‎ high

Adjective

knee-high (not comparable)

1. Reaching to the height of a person's knees.

   Coordinate terms: chest-high, waist-high, waist-deep

   Near-synonym: knee-deep

   knee-high by the Fourth of July

   The corn is knee-high.

2. (by extension) 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.

Translations

Reaching to the height of a person's knees

• German: kniehoch

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 supported by garter belts.

Synonyms

• pop sock (UK)

Translations

sock that reaches almost up to the knee

• Belarusian: гольф m (holʹf)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膝上襪／膝上袜 (xīshàngwà)

• Czech: podkolenka (cs) f
• Danish: knæstrømpe c
• Dutch: kniekous (nl) f
• Finnish: polvisukka (fi)
• French: mi-bas (fr) m, demi-bas (fr) m
• German: Kniestrumpf (de) m
• Hungarian: térdzokni (hu)
• Italian: gambaletto (it) m
• Japanese: ハイソックス (hai sokkusu), ニーソックス (nī sokkusu)
• Korean: 무릎양말 (mureupyangmal), 니삭스 (nisakseu)
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• Polish: zakolanówka (pl) f, podkolanówka (pl) f
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• Russian: гольф (ru) m (golʹf)
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• Ukrainian: гольф (uk) m (holʹf)
• Vietnamese: tất nhỡ

See also

• knee-high to a grasshopper