skirt
skirt Lexical Profile
skirt Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A garment fastened around the waist and hanging down around the legs, typically worn by women and girls.
"She wore a pleated uniform skirt to school every day."
The edge, border, or extreme margin of a particular area.
"The hikers set up their camp on the rocky skirt of the mountain."
A protective or decorative flap or panel on a vehicle, machine, or piece of furniture that covers its lower section.
"The hovercraft's flexible rubber skirt allows it to glide seamlessly from water to land."
• verb
To go around or past the edge of (a place or geographical feature).
"Rather than driving through the congested city center, we decided to skirt the downtown area."
To attempt to ignore, evade, or avoid dealing directly with (a difficult issue, topic, or rule).
"The politician managed to skirt the reporter's difficult questions by changing the subject."
To form the edge or border of (an area or feature).
"Ancient, towering pine trees skirted the edge of the frozen lake."
• Rhymes for skirt
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English 'skirte', borrowed from Old Norse 'skyrta' (meaning 'shirt' or 'tunic'). It is closely related to the Old English word 'scyrte' (shirt), reflecting a historical linguistic split where the Norse derivative came to mean the lower half of a garment, while the English derivative referred to the upper.
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