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Housemaid's knee   Listen
Housemaid's knee

noun
1.
Swelling of the bursa in the knee (due to trauma or excessive kneeling).





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"Housemaid's knee" Quotes from Famous Books



... just the lads to give it to 'em in bucketfuls. The little nosy reporter with the hair was fair crazy to come, but McGinty gets a jackleg doctor to examine him an' swear that he's sufferin' from spatulation o' the medulla oblongata, housemaid's knee, and the hives. We're mighty sorry, but it's agin the by-laws to bring him along. He felt heartbroken, so just before we up hook with the expedition, I had Bull give him an' the other newspaper boys a hundred ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne


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