skirt

Εννοια (English)

Noun

1. An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
2. The 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. (slang) A woman.
6. (colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
7. (colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
8. The border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
9. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

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).

Synonyms

dress

👗

go around

border

bypass

surround

slip

petticoat

put off

lap

kilt

chick

circle

⭕

edge

evade

circumvent

doll

annulus

shirt

👕

ring

💍

bird

🐦

duck

🦆

apron

avoid

bank

🏦

coat

🧥

dame

detour

dodge

elude

environ

flap

fringe

fudge

go round

hedge

hem

jacket

loop

➿

margin

parry

rim

sarong

sidestep

smock

skate over

wench

hem of a garment

walk along

flank

T-Shirt

flounce

overskirt

side panel

furbelow

fustanella

cincture

side-step

hanger steak

follow the edge of

hemline

hoop

hug

itinerate

walk along the edge of

cape

bottom

lapel

line

wrap-around skirt

shy away from

material

melt

miniskirt

move around

orbit

outskirts

pan

panel

bordering region

bodice

pivot

pleura

prevaricate

pronate

blouse

fringe of a garment

belt

rock music

rot

rotate

round

run along

lateral plate

screw

shirk

begird

shore

short-circuit

side piece

side plate

curb plate

skirting

skirts

band

arthropleure

spiral

splay

spread out

stall

suburbs

ambulate

tail

tail feathers

take in

tergiversate

tire

side board

touch

T-shirt

turn

turn out

twine

twist

tyre

verge

collar

corset

crushed

cycle

wallboard

destroyed

wayside

distort

welt

cloak

circumvolve

adjoin

circumnavigate

edging

gathering sill

encircle

engird

zone

equivocate

circulate

fabric

face

fall

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/skɜːt/

Ετυμολογία (English)

Inherited from Μέσα Αγγλικά: skyrte

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: Skoarte

Cognate with Ολλανδικά: schort

Cognate with Γερμανικά: Schürze

Cognate with Δανικά: skørt

Cognate with Σουηδικά: skört

Cognate with Νορβηγικά: skjørt

In summary

From Middle English skyrte, from Old Norse skyrta, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ. Doublet of shirt. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Skoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skørt (“skirt”), Swedish skört (“hem of a jacket”), Norwegian skjørt (“skirt”).