knee-high

See also: kneehigh and knee high

English

From knee +‎ high (adjective).^[1]

knee-high (not comparable)

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.
(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.

reaching to the height of a person’s knees

very young — see young

knee-high (plural knee-highs)

(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

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: demi-bas (fr) m, mi-bas (fr) m
German: Kniestrumpf (de) m
Hungarian: térdzokni (hu)
Italian: gambaletto (it) m
Japanese: ニーハイソックス (nī hai sokkusu), ハイソックス (ja) (hai sokkusu), ニーソックス (ja) (nī sokkusu)
Korean: 니 삭스 (ni sakseu), 하이 삭스 (hai sakseu), 니 하이 삭스 (ni hai sakseu), 무릎양말 (mureupyangmal), 반스타킹 (banseutaking)
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Polish: zakolanówka (pl) f, podkolanówka (pl) f
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Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: гольф (ru) m (golʹf)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: knästrumpa (sv) c
Ukrainian: гольф (uk) m (holʹf)
Vietnamese: tất nhỡ