Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A loose edging to any part of a dress.
- 3noun
Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
- 4noun
A petticoat.
- 5noun
The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
- 6transitive verb
To cover with a skirt; to surround.
- 7transitive 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.
- 8transitive verb
To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
- 9noun
a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
- 10noun
cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
- 11noun
informal terms for a (young) woman
- 12noun
(Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
Synonyms
- 13verb
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
"He dodged the issue"
"she skirted the problem"
- 14verb
extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
"The forest surrounds my property"
- 15verb
pass around or about; move along the border
"The boat skirted the coast"
- 16verb
form the edge of
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