Associations to the word «Knee-high»

Wiktionary

KNEE-HIGH, adjective. Something that reaches to the height of one's knees.
KNEE-HIGH, noun. (US) (usually in the plural) A sock or stocking that reaches to the knees.

Dictionary definition

KNEE-HIGH, noun. A sock or stocking that reaches up to just below the knees.
KNEE-HIGH, adverb. Up to the knees; "we were standing knee-deep in the water".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne