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Definition of Knee-deep

1. Adjective. Coming only to the ankle or knee.

2. Adverb. Up to the knees. "We were standing knee-deep in the water"

Definition of Knee-deep

1. Adjective. Reaching up to the knees. ¹

2. Adjective. Submerged to the knees. ¹

3. Adjective. (figuratively by extension) Deeply involved in something, or preoccupied with something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Knee-deep

1. 1. Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep. "Grass knee-deep within a month." (Milton) 2. Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. "Where knee-deep the trees were standing." (Longfellow) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Knee-deep

kneader kneaders kneading kneading trough kneading troughs kneadingly kneads knebelite knebelites kneck

knecks knee knee-cap knee-caps knee-chest position knee-deep (current term) knee-deep in the Big Muddy knee-elbow position knee-high knee-highs

knee-jerk knee-jerk reflex knee-jerks knee-length knee-pad knee-slapper knee-slappers knee-slapping knee-tremblers

Literary usage of Knee-deep

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
""knee-deep, knee-deep!" I am a child again! I hear the cow-bells tinkling down the lane The plaintive whippoorwills, the distant call Of quails beyond the ..."

2. Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments and for the Use of edited by Robert McLean Cumnock (1913)
"knee-deep IN JUNE I Tell you what I like the best — 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine — some afternoon Like to ..."

3. School and College Speaker by Wilmot Brookings Mitchell (1901)
"Used by permission of the publishers, The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Ind., USA Tell you what I like the best— 'Long about knee-deep in June, ..."

4. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"knee-deep IN JUNE rL you what I like the best: 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time the strawberries melts On the vine,— some afternoon Like to ..."

5. Younger American Poets, 1830-1890 by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Goodridge Bliss Roberts (1891)
"TELL you what I like the best— 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine,—some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, ..."

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