Kilt vs. Skirt

Kiltverb

To gather up (skirts) around the body.

Kiltverb

nonstandard form of killed: kill.

Kiltnoun

A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.

Kiltnoun

(historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid

Kiltnoun

A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA.

Kiltnoun

A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.

Kilt

p. p. from Kill.

Kiltnoun

A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg.

Kiltverb

To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.

Kiltnoun

a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men in the Highlands of northern Scotland

Kiltnoun

a garment resembling a knee-length skirt of pleated tartan cloth, traditionally worn by men as part of Scottish Highland dress and now also worn by women and girls.

Kiltverb

gather (a garment or material) in vertical pleats.

Kiltverb

tuck up one's skirts around one's body.

Kilt

A kilt (Scottish Gaelic: fèileadh [ˈfeːləɣ]; Irish: féileadh) is a type of knee-length men’s dress skirt non-bifurcated with pleats at the back, originating in the traditional dress of Gaelic men and boys in the Scottish Highlands. It is first recorded in the 16th century as the great kilt, a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak.

Skirtnoun

An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.

Skirtnoun

The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.

Skirtnoun

A loose edging to any part of a dress.

Skirtnoun

A petticoat.

Skirtnoun

A woman.

Skirtnoun

Women collectively, in a sexual context.

Skirtnoun

Sexual intercourse with a woman.

Skirtnoun

Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.

Skirtnoun

The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

Skirtverb

To be on or form the border of.

Skirtverb

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

Skirtverb

To cover with a skirt; to surround.

Skirtverb

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

Skirtnoun

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.

Skirtnoun

A loose edging to any part of a dress.

Skirtnoun

Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything

Skirtnoun

A petticoat.

Skirtnoun

The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

Skirtverb

To cover with a skirt; to surround.

Skirtverb

To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.

Skirtverb

To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.

Skirtnoun

cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist

Skirtnoun

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

Skirtnoun

informal terms for a (young) woman

Skirtverb

avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);

Skirtverb

pass around or about; move along the border;

Skirtverb

form the edge of

Skirtverb

extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle;

Skirt

A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards.At its simplest, a skirt can be a draped garment made out of a single piece of fabric (such as pareos). However, most skirts are fitted to the body at the waist or hips and fuller below, with the fullness introduced by means of darts, gores, pleats, or panels.