Meanings
adjectiveankle-deep (not comparable)
- not comparableUp to one's ankles in something.
She went to the Common to walk Max, but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud.
2 more examples
The floor is littered ankle-deep with half-sewn garments.
1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 125Steadying herself by the long willow branches, ankle-deep she began.
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 7
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
German knöcheltief
- knöcheltiefTranslations
Romanian până la glezne
- până la glezneTranslations
Russian по щи́колотку
- по щи́колотку (po ščíkolotku)Translations
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Chicago
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