shirt

Plural: shirts

Noun

A garment worn on the upper part of the body.
a garment worn on the upper half of the body
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.
An interior lining in a blast furnace.
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

Verb

put a shirt on
To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.

Examples

He went to the mall to buy shirts his size.
He would give the shirt off his back for a blank tile right now.
It can take a while to learn how to iron a shirt properly.

Origin / Etymology

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”).
Doublet of skirt via Old Norse; further related to short.

Synonyms

sark

Scrabble Score: 8

shirt: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
shirt: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shirt: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

shirt: valid Words With Friends Word