skirt

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a piece of clothing worn from the waist down, covering part of the legs

   She wore a long blue skirt to the party.

2. 2
   verb

   to go around the edge of something rather than through the middle

   The path skirts the edge of the forest.

3. 3
   verb

   to avoid dealing with a difficult subject directly

   The politician skirted the question about taxes.

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”).

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