skirt
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)skirts
- cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waistType of cloth coveringPart of garmentParts lap, seat
- a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and womenType of garmentKinds overskirt, lavalava, ballet skirt, gathered skirt, hoopskirt, maxi, sarong, miniskirt, culotte, grass skirt +3 moreParts kick pleat, sunburst pleat, hemline, slide fastener, placket, box pleat
- (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collarSynonyms: annulusType of plant part, plant structurePart of partial veil
- informal terms for a (young) womanSynonyms: damedollwenchchickbirdType of girl, miss
Verb (4)skirts, skirted, skirting
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)“He dodged the issue”“she skirted the problem”“They tend to evade their responsibilities”“he evaded the questions skillfully”Synonyms: hedgefudgeevadeput offcircumventparryeludedodgeducksidestepMore general avoidMore specific quibble, beg
- pass around or about; move along the border“The boat skirted the coast”More general travel by, pass by
- form the edge ofMore general bound, border
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle“The forest surrounds my property”Synonyms: surroundenvironringborderMore general touch, adjoinMore specific enclose, hem in, cloister, girdle, fringe
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Translations
Noun article of clothing
- Spanish
- falda
- French
- jupe
- German
- Rock
- Italian
- gonna
- Portuguese
- saia
- Turkish
- etek
- Russian
- ю́бка júbka
- Arabic
- تَنُّورَة tannūra
- Chinese
- 裙子 qúnzi
- Japanese
- スカート sukāto
33 more languages
- Dutch
- rok
- Polish
- spódnica
- Swedish
- kjol
- Greek
- φούστα foústa
- Korean
- 스커트 seukeoteu
- Indonesian
- rok
- Vietnamese
- váy
- Hungarian
- szoknya
- Portuguese (PT)
- saia
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 裙子 qúnzi
- Albanian
- fund
- Breton
- brozh
- Catalan
- faldilla
- Czech
- sukně
- Danish
- nederdel
- Esperanto
- jupo
- Estonian
- seelik
- Finnish
- hame
- Georgian
- ქვედაკაბა kvedaḳaba
- Hebrew
- חֲצָאִית khatsa'ít
- Icelandic
- pils
- Kurdish
- damen
- Latvian
- svārki
- Lithuanian
- sijonas
- Norwegian
- skjørt
- Romanian
- fustă
- Scottish Gaelic
- sgiort
- Serbo-Croatian
- suknja
- Slovak
- sukňa
- Slovenian
- krilo
- Swahili
- sketi
- Welsh
- sgert
- Yiddish
- ספּאָדניצע spodnitse
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. skyrt, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skyrta a shirt, Sw. skört a skirt, skjorta a shirt. See Shirt.
1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
2. A loose edging to any part of a dress. obsolete
A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.— Joseph Addison
3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything “Here in the skirts of the forest.” William Shakespeare
4. A petticoat.
5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison, Robley
1. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold.— John Milton
2. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. “When sundown skirts the moor.” Alfred Tennyson
To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
Savages... who skirt along our western frontiers.— Sam. Stanhope Smith
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54