different between shirt vs shirts

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??t/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /????/, /?????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English s?yrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtij?, from Proto-Germanic *skurtij? (“a short garment, skirt, apron”).

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”).

English skirt is a parallel formation from Old Norse; which is a doublet of short, from the same ultimate source.

Noun

shirt (plural shirts)

1. 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.
   • 1509, John Fisher, A Mornynge Remembraunce […]

     She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere.

   • Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.
2. An interior lining in a blast furnace.
3. A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

Derived terms

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): /??rt/
• Hyphenation: shirt
• Rhymes: -?rt

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

English

Pronunciation

Noun

shirts

1. plural of shirt

See also

• shirts and skins

Anagrams

• Hirsts

Dutch

Noun

shirts

1. plural of shirt