skirt

skirt is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
2. noun. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
3. noun. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
4. noun. A petticoat.
5. noun. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
6. transitive verb. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
7. transitive verb. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
8. transitive verb. To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
9. noun. a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
10. noun. cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
11. noun. informal terms for a (young) woman

    Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, wench

12. noun. (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar

    Synonyms: annulus

13. verb. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

    "He dodged the issue"

    "she skirted the problem"

    Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep

14. verb. extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

    "The forest surrounds my property"

    Synonyms: border, environ, ring, surround

15. verb. pass around or about; move along the border

    "The boat skirted the coast"

16. verb. form the edge of

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in skirt:

stirk

Common word forms

skirts, skirted, skirter, skirting, skirtless

Words from these letters

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