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skirt

noun

1 skirt

Cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist.

Roget 39: adjunct; addition, additament; additum [Lat.], affix, appelidage, annexe, annex; augment, augmentation; increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, ... show more

Roget 214: pendency, dependency; suspension, hanging etc. v.; pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, ... show more

Roget 225: clothing, investment; covering etc. 223; dress, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; ... show more

Roget 231: edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, ... show more

2 skirt

A garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women.

Dutch: rok
Polish: spódnica

3 skirt

Fungi A remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar.

synonym: annulus.

4 skirt

Informal terms for a (young) woman.

synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, wench.

Dutch: babe, brok, griet, kanjer, meid, poes, pop, poppetje, spetter, stoeipoes ... show more
Polish: córeczka, córka, dziewczyna

verb

1 skirt

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues):
— She skirted the problem.

synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep.

Roget 236: be on one side etc. adv.; flank, outflank; sidle; skirt; orientate.   

Dutch: drukken, omzeilen

2 skirt

Pass around or about; move along the border.

3 skirt

Form the edge of.

4 skirt

Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.

synonyms: border, environ, ring, surround.

Roget 227: lie around etc. adv.; surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, ... show more

Dutch: omcirkelen, insluiten, omgeven, omleggen, omringen, omsluiten, omtrekken


Moby thesaurus: Jane, Mother Hubbard, adjoin, babe, baby, ballet skirt, bank, befringe, beg, biddy, bind, bird, bitch, board, border, bordure, bound, boundaries, bounds, bourns ... show more.

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