skirt

Meanings

Noun

• An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
• The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
• A loose edging to any part of a dress.
• A petticoat.
• A woman.
• Women collectively, in a sexual context.
• Sexual intercourse with a woman.
• Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
• The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

Verb

• To be on or form the border of.
• To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
• To cover with a skirt; to surround.
• To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).

Origin

• From Middle English skyrte, from Old Norse skyrta, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ. shirt. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Skoarte, Dutch schort, German Schürze, Danish skørt, Swedish skört, Norwegian skjørt.