different between kirtle vs firtle

English

Etymology

From Middle English kirtel, from Old English cyrtel, cognate with Old Norse kyrtill (“tunic”) (whence Icelandic kyrtill, Danish kjortel (“gown, tunic”), Swedish kjortel (“petticoat, skirt”)), from Old Norse *kurtil-, supposedly a diminutive of *kurt-, from Latin curtus (“short, shortened”). Compare German Kittel.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??t(?)l/, /?k??(?)-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?t(?)l/, /-?(?)l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?l
• Hyphenation: kir?tle

Noun

kirtle (plural kirtles)

1. A knee-length tunic.
2. A short jacket.
3. A woman's gown; a woman's outer petticoat or skirt.

Translations

Verb

kirtle (third-person singular simple present kirtles, present participle kirtling, simple past and past participle kirtled)

1. (transitive) To clothe or cover with, or as if with, a kirtle; to hitch up (a long garment) to the length of a kirtle.
2. (intransitive) Clothed or covered with, or as if with, a kirtle.

Further reading

• kirtle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• kilter

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t?l

Verb

firtle (third-person singular simple present firtles, present participle firtling, simple past and past participle firtled)

1. (Cumbria) To mess around, to waste time.

   Stop messing around.

References

• Lakeland Dialect
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Anagrams

• filter, filtre, lifter, relift, trifle