skirt
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
A loose edging to any part of a dress.
A petticoat.
Verb 4 meanings
To be on or form the border of.
“The plain was skirted by rows of trees.”
To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
“skirt a mountain”
To cover with a skirt; to surround.
To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
“Near-synonym: circumvent”
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.
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SKIRT at a glance
SKIRT has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (S 1 + K 5 + I 1 + R 1 + T 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,493 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with skirt
All rhymesOne letter away
- SHIRT8
- SKINT9
- SPIRT7
- SKORT9
- SKIRL9
- SKIRR9
- SKART9
- SNIRT5
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