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skirtest

skirtest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of skirt.

Meaning of skirt

Verb

skirt (third-person singular simple present skirts, present participle skirting, simple past and past participle skirted)

  1. To be on or form the border of.
    • The plain was skirted by rows of trees.
  2. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
    • skirt a mountain
  3. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
    • skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  4. (figuratively) To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).
    • Near-synonym: circumvent
    Synonyms:
    circumvent

See all 13 meanings of skirt

Origin of skirtest

skirt + -est

Questions about skirtest

What is skirtest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Skirtest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of skirt.

Words near skirtest in the dictionary

  1. skirtboards
  2. skirted
  3. skirted around
  4. skirter
  5. skirters
  6. skirtest
  7. skirteth
  8. skirtful
  9. skirtfuls
  10. skirtie
  11. skirties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skirtest (page history and authors); skirt (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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