shirt

English Online Dictionary. What means shirt‎? What does shirt mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɜːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɝt/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ʃəːʈ/, /ʃəːɾʈ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

shirt (plural shirts)

2. (clothing) 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.

   Synonym: sark
3. An interior lining in a blast furnace.
4. A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Fiji Hindi: sat

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sherten, shirten (also shorten), from the noun (see above).

Verb

shirt (third-person singular simple present shirts, present participle shirting, simple past and past participle shirted)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Hirst, Trish, riths

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃʏrt/
• Hyphenation: shirt
• Rhymes: -ʏrt

Noun

shirt n (plural shirts, diminutive shirtje n)

1. a T-shirt or other shirt, typically including undershirts

Derived terms

• T-shirt

Related terms

• schort

Middle English

Noun

shirt

1. alternative form of sherte