/ʃɜːt/, /ʃɜɹt/, /ʃəːʈ/
OriginFrom Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skjorte (“shirt”), Norwegian skjorte (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”).
Doublet of skirt via Old Norse; further related to short.
- An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
“He went to the mall to buy shirts his size.”
“It can take a while to learn how to iron a shirt properly.”
“She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere.”
- An interior lining in a blast furnace.
- A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
- To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
“1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I.
Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.”
Formsshirts(plural) · shirts(present, singular, third-person) · shirting(participle, present) · shirted(participle, past) · shirted(past)