shirt

Definition of shirt

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

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.”
“Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.”
“Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.”

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noun

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.”
“Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.”
“Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.”
An interior lining in a blast furnace.
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

verb

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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From 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”).…

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From 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.

Anagrams of shirt

3 plays · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from shirt

21 playable · top: HIST (7 pts)

Best play hist 7 points

4-letter words

7 words

3-letter words

7 words

2-letter words

6 words

Hooks

2 extensions · 2 back

A single letter you can add to shirt to make another valid word.