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shirtie

shirtie is the diminutive of shirt.

Meaning of shirt

Noun

shirt (plural shirts)

  1. An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms.
    • He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.
    Synonyms:
    sark
  2. An interior lining in a blast furnace.
  3. A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

See all 4 meanings of shirt

Forms of shirtie

pluralshirties

Origin of shirtie

From shirt + -ie.

Questions about shirtie

What is shirtie the diminutive of?
Shirtie is the diminutive of shirt.

Words near shirtie in the dictionary

  1. shirtfronting
  2. shirtfronts
  3. shirtful
  4. shirtfuls
  5. Shirtgate
  6. shirtie
  7. shirtier
  8. shirties
  9. shirtiest
  10. shirtily
  11. shirtiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shirtie (page history and authors); shirt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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