shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɜːt/
ipa: /ʃɜɹt/
ipa: /ʃəːʈ/
ipa: /ʃəːɾʈ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: shirts
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.
Senses: examples: text: He went to the mall to buy shirts his size.
text: It can take a while to learn how to iron a shirt properly.
text: She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere.
ref: 1509, John Fisher, A Mornynge Remembraunce […] :
text: Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: sark
glosses: 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.
glosses: An interior lining in a blast furnace.
glosses: A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
Derived terms: sense: single words
word: greenshirt
sense: single words
word: Orange Shirt Day
sense: single words
word: overshirt
sense: single words
word: redshirt
sense: single words
word: shacket
sense: single words
word: shirtdress
sense: single words
word: shirted
sense: single words
word: shirtfront
sense: single words
word: shirtful
sense: single words
word: Shirtgate
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word: shirtless
sense: single words
word: shirtlifting
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word: shirtlike
sense: single words
word: shirtmaker
sense: single words
word: shirtmaking
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word: shirttail
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word: shirtwaist
sense: single words
word: shirtwaister
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word: shirtwise
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word: shirty
sense: single words
word: sleepshirt
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word: swimshirt
sense: single words
word: workshirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: aloha shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: A-shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: belly shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: blackshirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: blue shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: Blueshirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: boiled shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: bowling shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: brown shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: Brownshirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: brownshirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: cabana shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: camp shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: Crimean shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: diaper shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: dinner shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: dress shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: fire shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: ghost shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: golf shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: grandfather shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: habit shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: hair-shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: hairshirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: hair shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: Hawaiian shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: horsehair shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: jac-shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: lounge shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: lumberjack shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: Madiba shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: mail shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: muscle shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: Nessus shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: nether-shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: nightshirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: peasant shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: pirate shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: poet shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: polo shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: purple shirt of sex
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: red-shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: red shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: ringer T-shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: rugby shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-button
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt collar
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-frill
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-front
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-jac
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-lifter
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirtlifter
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt lifter
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirts and skins
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-sleeve
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt sleeve
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-sleeves
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt sleeves
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-stud abscess
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-tail
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt tail
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt-waist
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shirt waist
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: shooter shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: stuffed shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: stuffed-shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: sweat shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: sweatshirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: tennis shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: the shirt off one's back
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: Tolstoy shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: T-shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: tuxedo shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: undershirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: war shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: wedding shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: white-shirt
sense: compound words and phrases (nouns)
word: yellow shirt
word: get one's shirt out
word: get someone's shirt out
word: give the shirt off one's back
word: keep one's shirt on
word: lose one's shirt
word: off like a dirty shirt
word: put one's shirt on
word: wave the bloody shirt