How to spell skirt

Skirt is spelled S-K-I-R-T.

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What it means: A garment worn around the waist.

In a sentence: She wore a skirt to the party.

Same family: skirting (the issue), skirted (the question), avoid, evade, sidestep. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb “skirt,” meaning to avoid or go around something, comes from the noun “skirt,” originally referring to the edge or border of a garment. Over time, English speakers extended the idea of moving around the edge of something to the figurative sense of avoiding a problem or question.

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