shirt

Pronunciation: /ʃɜːt/

The English word “shirt” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms.
An interior lining in a blast furnace.
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

verb

To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.

Etymology

From Middle English schirt, schirte, schuirte, schyrtte, seorte, shearte, shert, shirt, sseorte, 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”), from *skertaną (“to cut off”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off; to divide”). Doublet of skirt.…

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