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skirty

/skɜː(ɹ)ti/

skirty adjective: like a skirt; featuring a skirt or skirts. Also the alternative spelling of skirtie.

Adjective

skirty

  1. Like a skirt; featuring a skirt or skirts.
    • The sides flare out to give it a skirty look.
    • the skirty national dress of India
  2. (rare) Wearing a skirt.
    • A butler chases a skirty maid around and around a table with a candlestick, her tithering as if she doesn't like it, but she likes it.2011, Peter Orner, Love and Shame and Love
    Synonyms:
    beskirted, skirted
  3. Fond of wearing skirts; tending to wear skirts.
    • I'm just not a skirty person.
    • Mrs. Calovatto was looking brand new in her semitropical Ionojet slacks suit — very daring, Elaine thought, for a skirty woman.1977, John Hersey, The Walnut Door

Also used as

skirty is also the alternative spelling of skirtie.

Synonyms of skirty

Forms of skirty

pluralskirties

Origin of skirty

From skirt + -y (adjectival suffix).

From skirt + -y (diminutive suffix).

Words that rhyme with skirty

Questions about skirty

What does skirty mean?
Skirty means like a skirt; featuring a skirt or skirts.
What part of speech is skirty?
Skirty is an adjective.
How do you pronounce skirty?
Skirty is pronounced /skɜː(ɹ)ti/.

Words near skirty in the dictionary

  1. skirtlike
  2. skirts
  3. skirts and kidneys
  4. skirts around
  5. skirtsful
  6. skirty
  7. Skirvin
  8. Skirwhit
  9. skis
  10. skish
  11. skister

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