Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

skirty

/skɜː(ɹ)ti/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: skir-ty
IPA: /skɜː(ɹ)ti/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Like a skirt; featuring a skirt or skirts.

adj

Wearing a skirt.

adj

Fond of wearing skirts; tending to wear skirts.

noun

Alternative spelling of skirtie.

Example Sentences

"The sides flare out to give it a skirty look."
"the skirty national dress of India"
"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."
"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."

Etymology

From skirt + -y (adjectival suffix).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: skirt

Inflected Forms

skirties (plural)

Synonyms

beskirted skirted

Rhymes With

dirty poverty thirty flirty qwerty purty hurty shirty alberty cherty

Questions

How do you pronounce skirty?: The recorded pronunciation is /skɜː(ɹ)ti/.
What does skirty mean?: Like a skirt; featuring a skirt or skirts.
Where does skirty come from?: From skirt + -y (adjectival suffix).

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