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skirty en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /skɜː(ɹ)ti/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From skirt + -y (adjectival suffix).

Meanings

1. Like a skirt; featuring a skirt or skirts.
   • the skirty national dress of India
   • The sides flare out to give it a skirty look.
2. (rare) Wearing a skirt.
   • 2011, Peter Orner, Love and Shame and Love 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.
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:

Synonyms

skirted · beskirted

skirty en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /skɜː(ɹ)ti/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From skirt + -y (diminutive suffix).

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of skirtie.
   alt of skirtie

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