Kilt

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  • noun. A knee-length skirt with deep pleats, usually of a tartan wool, worn as part of the dress for men in the Scottish Highlands.
  • noun. A similar skirt worn by women, girls, and boys.
  • transitive verb. To tuck up (something) around the body.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In the original Highland dress, that part of the belted plaid which hung below the waist; in modern times, a separate garment, a sort of petticoat reaching from the girdle nearly to the knees, composed of tartan and deeply plaited. The garment is imitated in various fabrics for children's wear. See kilting.
  • To tuck up; truss Up (the clothes).
  • In dressmaking, to lay (a skirt or a flounce) in deep, flat, longitudinal plaits hanging free at the bottom, in the fashion of a Highland kilt.
  • noun. An obsolete or dialectal preterit and past participle of kill.
  • Small; lean; slender.
  • To step lightly and nimbly, as if with the skirts kilted out of the way.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • p. p. from kill.
  • noun. A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg.
  • transitive verb. To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid;
  • noun. a plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference;
  • noun. a variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men as part of the traditional dress in the Highlands of northern Scotland
  • Word Usage
    "-- _I'm kilt all over_ means that he is in a worse state than being simply _kilt_."
    Form
    kilted  kilting  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    skirt  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    built  gilt  guilt  hilt  jilt  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Jeans  apron  cape  gaiter  jerkin  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    filibeg  philibeg  
    variant
    Kelt  kill  
    verb-form
    kilted  kilting  kilts