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Definition of Knee-deep
1. Adverb. Up to the knees. "We were standing knee-deep in the water"
2. Adjective. Coming only to the ankle or knee.
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
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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