There is a movement when someone grabs your knee (usually an adult–say, grandparent—when you are a kid) on the sides of it and presses into the sides with their thumb and index fingers. This causes a momentary funny feeling jolt, like a tickle or reflex or nerve hit or painful feeling there and usually you don’t want them doing it for long.
Much like trying to tickle yourself, though, it seems near impossible to do to onself, though…like, you need someone else to GIVE you one of these.
It’s not a romantic or sexual thing, though. I know when people hear “knee squeeze” these days, that comes to mind almost automatically, this is more akin to a GOOSE or a NOOGIE.
First question: Do you, the reader of this topic right now, KNOW what I’m talking about?
Second, well, I presume you’ve had it done to you or you’ve done it to others before, then?
Third, is there an actual name for this? Google didn’t bring much up other than “HORSEBITE” or (and I’m not making this up), quite literally a “how does a horse bite an apple”…but I find that to be… proooooobably not an official name.
It even have a name?
Feel free to tell me, too, if you have no idea what the hell I’m on about.
Never encountered it on a knee. But when I was a schoolkid, there was an annoying bully habit called the ‘Chinese Burn’ where they would grab your wrist with one hand and then grasp a little further up the arm and twist to painfully stretch the skin in between.
I totally remember this but not a name for it. It’s to get the startle reaction, not a sustained hold-you-down tickle-till-sobbing way and the perpetrator could expect an immediate sharp elbow. Sort of like an ice cube down the neck.
