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skirt

Pronunciation: /skɜːt/

The English word “skirt” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.
  2. A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
  3. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
  4. A petticoat.
  5. A woman.
  6. Women collectively, in a sexual context.
  7. Sexual intercourse with a woman.
  8. A border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
  9. A diaphragm, or midriff.

verb

  1. To be on or form the border of.
  2. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
  3. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
  4. To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).

Etymology

From Middle English scyrt, skirt, skyrte, skyrthe, skyrtte, from Old Norse skyrta, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“apron; skirt”), from *skurtaz (“short; deficient”), from *skertaną (“to cut off”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off; to divide”). Doublet of shirt. Cognates Cognate with Yola shoorth, skoorth (“shirt”), North Frisian Sjürt (“shirt”), Saterland Frisian Schoarte…

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