shirt

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Meaning

1. An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
2. An interior lining in a blast furnace.
3. A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

inner garment

business shirt

dress-shirt

upper-body clothes

sleeveless undershirt

long gown

knitted shirt

blast furnace lining

T-Shirt

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɜːt/

From Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skjorte (“shirt”), Norwegian skjorte (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”). English skirt is a parallel formation from Old Norse; which is a doublet of short, from the same ultimate source.