knee ache

• kneeache, knee-ache

From knee +‎ ache.

• IPA^(key): /niˌeɪk/

knee ache (countable and uncountable, plural knee aches)

1. A pain in the knee, often caused by joint pain.

   Hypernyms: gonalgia, fibromyalgia, melalgia

   • 1991 March, F. Gonzalez-Crussi, chapter 1, in The Five Senses, Vintage Books, page 8:

     If I happen to be sitting in close proximity to the patient's stump, it is conceivable that he might trace the location of his pain to my knee or my foot. Is it then correct to say that he experiences a knee ache in my knee?

   • 2006, Lindsay Nicholson, chapter 10, in Living on the Seabed: A Memoir of Love, Life and Survival, Vermilion London, page 230:

     She was refusing to go to school. She had a sore throat, she said, or a headache, or a knee ache. Normally, I would panic at the slightest hint of illness — I was perpetually on the lookout for signs of leukaemia — but since she'd turned 10, becoming older than Ellie was when she died, I’d calmed down a lot.

   • 2011, Candance Weimer, When the World Dropped in On Me, DriverWorks Ink, page 73:

     Been gone for a bit. Three days ago, I awoke with a knee ache like I've never experienced before.
     The knee ache turned into surgery at midnight. While I was being prepped for surgery by the doctors, I asked two questions ...

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