skirt

Plural: skirts

Noun

• cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
• a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
• (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
• informal terms for a (young) woman
• 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.
• The border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
• The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

Verb

Verb Forms: skirted, skirting, skirts

• To go or pass along the edge of something.
• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  • "she skirted the problem"
• pass around or about; move along the border
  • "The boat skirted the coast"
• form the edge of
• extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
• 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).

Examples

• He decided to skirt around the heavily guarded triple word score, finding a safer play.
• He skirted the issue of which parties to attend by staying at home instead.
• skirt a mountain
• The plain was skirted by rows of trees.

Synonyms

annulus, bird, border, chick, circumvent, dame, dodge, doll, duck, elude, environ, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, ring, sidestep, surround, wench

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