shirt
Meanings
Plural: shirts
Noun
- a garment worn on the upper half of the body
- 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.
- An interior lining in a blast furnace.
- A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
Verb
- put a shirt on
- To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
Origin / 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”).
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.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
shirt is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordshirt is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shirt is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 7
shirt is a valid Words With Friends word