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skirted

skirted adjective: wearing a skirt. Also the simple past and past participle of skirt.

skirted: wearing a skirt
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Adjective

skirted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a skirt.
    • […] a small glass box in which you wander, swivel, waver, flashing your flesh like a skirted girl doing cartwheels on the lawn.2007, Naomi Guttman, Wet Apples, White Blood, page 68
    Synonyms:
    beskirted, skirty
  2. Having a skirt.
    • Carefully the child tried to cover her deformed leg under her skirted pyjamas.1979, Qurratulain Hyder, A Woman’s Life, Chetana Publications
    • Women should wear skirted suits or dresses with dress shoes; pantsuits are not usually worn.2012, Jeanette S. Martin, Lillian H. Chaney, Global Business Etiquette: A Guide to International Communication and Customs, 2nd edition, Praeger, →ISBN, page 87
  3. Bordered.
  4. Passed around; evaded.
    • a skirted topic of conversation
  5. Narrowly missed.

Also used as

skirted is also the simple past and past participle of skirt.

Synonyms of skirted

Origin of skirted

From skirt + -ed.

Words formed from skirted

Phrases with skirted

Questions about skirted

What does skirted mean?
Skirted means wearing a skirt.
What part of speech is skirted?
Skirted is an adjective.

Words near skirted in the dictionary

  1. skirt-chasers
  2. skirtage
  3. skirtalls
  4. skirtboard
  5. skirtboards
  6. skirted
  7. skirted around
  8. skirter
  9. skirters
  10. skirtest
  11. skirteth

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