"kneesies" meaning in English

See kneesies in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: knee + -sies Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|knee|sies}} knee + -sies Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} kneesies (uncountable)
  1. flirtatious touching using the knee(s) Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-kneesies-en-noun-kqX3-lJu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -sies Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -sies: 89 11
  2. plural of kneesie Tags: form-of, plural, uncountable Form of: kneesie
    Sense id: en-kneesies-en-noun-rulNenQT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: footsie

Download JSON data for kneesies meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "knee",
        "3": "sies"
      },
      "expansion": "knee + -sies",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "knee + -sies",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "kneesies (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "footsie"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -sies",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, Lawrence L. Schoonover, The Quick Brown Fox, page 137",
          "text": "If Bill wanted to play kneesies, let him play kneesies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, William Stevens, The Peddler, page 138",
          "text": "Get her brimming with slops and gratitude and then test the atmosphere with a little kneesies behind the drape of the tablecloth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, John Updike, Couples, page 38",
          "text": "\"He played kneesies with me.” “But he sat beside you.” “Sideways kneesies.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "She kept trying to play kneesies with me under the table."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "flirtatious touching using the knee(s)"
      ],
      "id": "en-kneesies-en-noun-kqX3-lJu",
      "links": [
        [
          "flirtatious",
          "flirtatious"
        ],
        [
          "touching",
          "touching"
        ],
        [
          "knee",
          "knee"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "kneesie"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural of kneesie"
      ],
      "id": "en-kneesies-en-noun-rulNenQT",
      "links": [
        [
          "kneesie",
          "kneesie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "plural",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kneesies"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -sies",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "knee",
        "3": "sies"
      },
      "expansion": "knee + -sies",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "knee + -sies",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "kneesies (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "footsie"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, Lawrence L. Schoonover, The Quick Brown Fox, page 137",
          "text": "If Bill wanted to play kneesies, let him play kneesies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, William Stevens, The Peddler, page 138",
          "text": "Get her brimming with slops and gratitude and then test the atmosphere with a little kneesies behind the drape of the tablecloth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, John Updike, Couples, page 38",
          "text": "\"He played kneesies with me.” “But he sat beside you.” “Sideways kneesies.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "She kept trying to play kneesies with me under the table."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "flirtatious touching using the knee(s)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flirtatious",
          "flirtatious"
        ],
        [
          "touching",
          "touching"
        ],
        [
          "knee",
          "knee"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "kneesie"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plural of kneesie"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "kneesie",
          "kneesie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "plural",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kneesies"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.