Nearby Words
Skirt www.chicos.com/ You're Going to Love the Way You Look in Glamorous Chico's Skirts.
Skirts Like skirts.bizrate.com/ Explore 400+ Skirts. Save on Skirts Like!
Clothes www.local.com/ Looking for Clothes info in California? Find it here!
Ads
noun
1.
the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
2.
a one-piece garment extending downward from the waist and not joined between the legs, worn especially by women and girls.
3.
some part resembling or suggesting the skirt of a garment, as the flared lip of a bell or a protective and ornamental cloth strip covering the legs of furniture.
4.
EXPANDa small leather flap on each side of a saddle, covering the metal bar from which the stirrup hangs.
6.
7.
Usually, skirts. the bordering, marginal, or outlying part of a place, group, etc.; the outskirts.
8.
Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a woman or girl.
9.
COLLAPSERocketry. an outer part of a rocket or missile that provides structural support or houses such systems as avionics or gyroscopes.
verb (used with object)
10.
to lie on or along the border of: The hills skirt the town.
11.
to border, wrap, or cover with a skirt or something suggesting a skirt in appearance or function.
12.
to pass along or around the border or edge of: Traffic skirts the town.
13.
to avoid, go around the edge of, or keep distant from (something that is controversial, risky, etc.): The senator skirted the issue.
14.
to remove low-grade wool and foreign matter from (the outer edge of fleece).
00:10
00:09
00:08
00:07
00:06
00:05
00:04
00:03
00:02
00:01
Skirtlike
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
verb (used without object)
15.
to be or lie on or along the edge of something.
16.
to move along or around the border of something.
Related forms
skirt·less, adjective
skirt·like, adjective
un·skirt·ed, adjective
Synonyms
13. evade, shun, circle, bypass.
13. evade, shun, circle, bypass.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
|
Link To skirtlike
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
skirt
c.1300, "lower part of a woman's dress," from O.N. skyrta "shirt," see shirt. Sense development from "shirt" to "skirt" is possibly related to the long shirts of peasant garb (cf. Low Ger. cognate Schört, in some dialects "woman's gown"). Sense of "border, edge" (in outskirts, etc.) first recorded
EXPAND1470, and the verb meaning "to pass along the edge" is from 1623. Metonymic use for "women collectively" is from 1560; slang sense of "young woman" is from 1906; skirt-chaser first attested 1942.
COLLAPSE
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Slang Dictionary
skirt definition
|
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
