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English
Adjective
ankle-deep (not comparable)
- Up to one's ankles in something.
- Coordinate terms: elbow-deep, knee-deep, neckdeep, waist-deep
She went to the Common to walk Max, but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud.
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:Steadying herself by the long willow branches, ankle-deep she began.
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