Synonyms:
skirt
Meaning: cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
Synonyms:
skirt
Meaning: a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
hedge, fudge, evade, put_off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
Meaning: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
Synonyms:
skirt
Meaning: pass around or about; move along the border; "The boat skirted the coast"
Usage examples
"What you need now is a new skirt.
It's hard enough nowadays to keep body and skirt together.
He will wear my red skirt and blue waist and brown mantilla.
But the second woman caught hold of her skirt and began to speak earnestly.
Her dress was a purple slip just to her knees, with a big rent in the skirt.
She took her poppy-bordered skirt over her arm, and smiled her thankful way to bed.
In tam o'shanter and tweed skirt Carol felt herself a college junior going out to play hockey.
He had taken it up, and was stooping to work again, when his eyes caught the skirt of her dress.
Its wide skirt reached to my shoetops, and the gathers to its full waist were gauged to a sharp peak in front.
"My head and shoulders are quite dry and my skirt is only a little damp where the rain beat through the lathes.