skirt

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.

   “"I like purple best," said Maida. "And old Schlegel has promised to make it for $8. It's going to be lovely. I'm going to have a plaited skirt and a blouse coat trimmed with a band of galloon under a white cloth collar with two rows of—"”

2. isim A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.

   “The petticoats and skirts ordinarily worn are decidedly the heaviest part of the dress ; hence it is necessary that some reform should be effected in these.”

3. isim A loose edging to any part of a dress.

   “A narrow lace, or a small skirt of fine ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.”

4. isim A petticoat.
5. isim A woman.

   “But I tell ya, I can't help but like a guy who wants to rescue some skirt he fell for.”

6. isim Women collectively, in a sexual context.
7. isim Sexual intercourse with a woman.
8. isim A border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.

   “here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.”

9. isim A diaphragm, or midriff.
10. fiil To be on or form the border of.

    “The plain was skirted by rows of trees.”

11. fiil To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.

    “skirt a mountain”

12. fiil To cover with a skirt; to surround.

    “skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold”

13. fiil To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).

    “skirt the issue”