different between skirt vs jupe

English

Etymology

From Middle English skyrte, from Old Norse skyrta, from Proto-Germanic *skurtij?. Doublet of shirt. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Skoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skørt (“skirt”), Swedish skört (“hem of a jacket”), Norwegian skjørt (“skirt”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: skû(r)t, IPA^(key): /sk??t/
• (US) enPR: skûrt, IPA^(key): /sk?t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Noun

skirt (plural skirts)

1. An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
   • c. 1907, O. Henry, The Purple Dress:

     "I like purple best," said Maida. "And old Schlegel has promised to make it for $8. It's going to be lovely. I'm going to have a plaited skirt and a blouse coat trimmed with a band of galloon under a white cloth collar with two rows of—"

2. The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
   • 1885, Ada S. Ballin, The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice, Chapter XI:

     The petticoats and skirts ordinarily worn are decidedly the heaviest part of the dress ; hence it is necessary that some reform should be effected in these.

   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

     “It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!”
     Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
3. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
   • July 27, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian no. 118

     A narrow lace, or a small skirt of fine ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.

4. A petticoat.
5. (derogatory, slang) A woman.
   • 1931, Robert E. Howard, Alleys of Peril:

     "Mate," said the Cockney, after we'd finished about half the bottle, "it comes to me that we're a couple o' blightin' idjits to be workin' for a skirt."

     "What d'ya mean?" I asked, taking a pull at the bottle.

     "Well, 'ere's us, two red-blooded 'e-men, takin' orders from a lousy little frail, 'andin' the swag h'over to 'er, and takin' wot she warnts to 'and us, w'en we could 'ave the 'ole lot. Take this job 'ere now--"

6. (Britain, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
7. (Britain, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
8. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
   • ca. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, sc. 2:

     here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.
9. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

Usage notes

• (article of clothing): It was formerly common to speak of “skirts” (plural) rather than “a skirt”. In some cases this served to emphasize an array of skirts of underskirts, or of pleats and folds in a single skirt; in other cases it made little or no difference in meaning.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (suk?to)
• ? Korean: ??? (seukeoteu)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: sgiort

Translations

Verb

skirt (third-person singular simple present skirts, present participle skirting, simple past and past participle skirted)

1. To be on or form the border of.

2. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     An enormous man and woman (it was early-closing day) were stretched motionless, with their heads on pocket-handkerchiefs, side by side, within a few feet of the sea, while two or three gulls gracefully skirted the incoming waves, and settled near their boots.
3. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
4. To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Kirst, stirk

Middle English

Noun

skirt

1. Alternative form of skyrte

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English jupe, from Middle French jupe. Doublet of jubbah.

Pronunciation

• enPR: zho?op, IPA^(key): /?u?p/

Noun

jupe (plural jupes)

1. A style of skirt.
2. A style of short jacket, usually for a woman or child.

Related terms

• jupe panel

Etymology 2

Apparently named after an EFnet user called Jupiter who did this to NickServ

Pronunciation

• enPR: jo?op, IPA^(key): /d??u?p/

Noun

jupe (plural jupes)

1. (IRC) A block placed on a server, nickname or channel

Verb

jupe (third-person singular simple present jupes, present participle juping, simple past and past participle juped)

1. (IRC) To block a server (from joining the network), a nickname or channel (from being used).

See also

• g-line
• k-line

French

Etymology

From Middle French jupe, from Old Italian giubba, from Arabic ??????? (jubba, “long garment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yp/

Noun

jupe f (plural jupes)

1. skirt

Derived terms

• jupette
• jupon
• minijupe

Descendants

• ? Egyptian Arabic: ????? (ž?ba)
• ? German: Jupe
• ? Luxembourgish: Jupe
• ? Spanish: chupa
  • ? Galician: chupa

Further reading

• “jupe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• joupe, gype, jowpe

Etymology

From Middle French jupe, from Old Italian giubba, from Arabic ??????? (jubba, “long garment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?iu?p(?)/, /?d?u?p(?)/

Noun

jupe

1. A coat or tunic worn loosely.

Related terms

• jupon

Descendants

• English: jupe
  • ? English: jump
    • ? English: jumper (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: juip

References

• “j?pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-16.