skirts
Meaning of skirts
plural noun
- a garment fastened around the waist and hanging down around the legs, worn by women and girls.
- a surface that conceals or protects the wheels or underside of a vehicle or aircraft.
- an animal's diaphragm and other membranes as food.
bits of beef skirt
- women regarded as objects of sexual desire.
- a small flap on a saddle, covering the bar from which the stirrup leather hangs.
- go round or past the edge of.
he did not go through the city but skirted it
- attempt to ignore; avoid dealing with.
they are both skirting the issue
the treaty skirted around the question of political cooperation
Middle English: from Old Norse skyrta ‘shirt’; compare with synonymous Old English scyrte, also with short. The verb dates from the early 17th century.
Information about skirts
- The singular form of skirts is: skirt.
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Hyphenation of skirts
skirts
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- skirts is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
skirts synonyms
Meaning move all the way around (someone or something), especially more than once:
Meaning sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world):
Meaning keep away from or stop oneself from doing (something):
Meaning escape or avoid (someone or something), especially by guile or trickery:
Meaning avoid (someone or something) by stepping sideways:
Meaning avoid (someone or something) by a sudden quick movement:
Meaning find a way around (an obstacle):
Meaning go past or round:
Meaning refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally:
Meaning fail to notice:
Meaning a waterbird with a broad blunt bill, short legs, webbed feet, and a waddling gait:
Anagrams of skirts
Words that rhyme with skirts
airts, dirts, girts, Blackshirts, Brownshirts, blackshirts, brownshirts, chirts, nightshirts, overshirts, redshirts, shirts, sweatshirts, undershirts, foreskirts, hoopskirts, maxiskirts, microskirts, miniskirts, outskirts, overskirts, pettiskirts, underskirts, flirts, gillflirts, jillflirts, snirts, spirts, quirts, squirts
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