different between skirt vs tut

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

Imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?t/, [?]
• Rhymes: -?t

Interjection

tut

1. Tut tut; an expression of disapproval.
2. Hush; be silent.

Synonyms

• (expression of disapproval): See Thesaurus:tut tut

Verb

tut (third-person singular simple present tuts, present participle tutting, simple past and past participle tutted)

1. To make a tut tut sound of disapproval.

Etymology 2

Shortening of tutorial.

Alternative forms

• tute

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t(j)u?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

tut (plural tuts)

1. (Internet slang) A tutorial.
   • 2002, "Little Penny", Looking for sites, tuts, videos to learn html (newbie) (on newsgroup alt.html)

Etymology 3

Compare Swedish tut (“a point, pipe, tube”), Danish tut (“a cornet”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tut (plural tuts)

1. An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
2. (Britain, obsolete, dialect) A hassock.

Etymology 4

Noun

tut (plural tuts)

1. (obsolete) A piece of work.

Etymology 5

Noun

tut (uncountable)

1. (Southern England) Rubbish.
   • 1977, Ian Drury & the Blockheads, Clever Trevor

     Such stupidness is mad 'cause nothing underfoot comes to nothing less to add to a load of old tut.

   • 2012, M.T. Maguire, The Wrong Stuff: K'Barthan Series: Part 2

     Cracking excuse: credible, watertight and yet patently a load of old tut.

   • 2017, Marilyn Messik, Witch Dust

     “Well there's a load of old tut in the cupboard next to Felicia's room,” she said grudgingly.

Verb

tut (third-person singular simple present tuts, present participle tutting, simple past and past participle tutted)

1. (obsolete) To work by the piece; to carry out tut-work.

Anagrams

• Utt

Amanab

Noun

tut

1. milk

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• tutu, tot, totu

Etymology

From Latin t?tus. Compare Romanian tot.

Adjective

tut m (feminine tutã or tute, masculine plural tuts, feminine plural tuti/tute)

1. all

Derived terms

• tutauna, totãnã, tutdiunã

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian ???? (tut). Ultimate origin uncertain.

Noun

tut (definite accusative tutu, plural tutlar)

1. mulberry

Declension

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?ud?]

Etymology 1

From Middle High German t?te (“thing shaped like a horn”), compare also German Tüte (“bag”) and (an older loan from Low German) Danish tud (“spout”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *þeut? (“pipe”) with an irregular (onomatopoeic?) treatment of the initial consonant.

Noun

tut c (singular definite tutten, plural indefinite tutter)

1. stall (a cover to a finger)
2. roll (a roll of coins)

Inflection

References

• “tut,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Derived from the verb tutte.

Noun

tut n (singular definite tuttet, plural indefinite tut)

1. toot

Declension

References

• “tut,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

tut f (plural tutten, diminutive tutje n)

1. a stiff wooden woman
2. (chiefly Belgium) a pacifier

   Synonym: fopspeen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty/
• Rhymes: -y
• Homophones: tu, tue, tues, tuent, tus, tût

Verb

tut

1. third-person singular past historic of taire

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Verb

tut

1. third-person singular present of tun

2. inflection of tun:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. plural imperative

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (t?t).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?t/

Noun

tut m (collective, singulative tuta, plural tuti)

1. blackberry
2. mulberry

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

tut m (definite singular tuten, indefinite plural tuter, definite plural tutene)

1. spout (on a teapot etc.)

Etymology 2

From the verb tute

Noun

tut n (definite singular tutet, indefinite plural tut, definite plural tuta or tutene)

1. toot

Etymology 3

Verb

tut

1. imperative of tute

References

• “tut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

tut m (definite singular tuten, indefinite plural tutar, definite plural tutane)

1. spout (on a teapot, etc.)

Etymology 2

From the verb tute

Noun

tut n (definite singular tutet, indefinite plural tut, definite plural tuta)

1. toot

References

• “tut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Adjective

tut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tute)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of tot

Declension

Adverb

tut

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of tot

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• tüt

Etymology

From Latin t?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyt/

Adjective

tut

1. all

Pronoun

tut

1. everything, all
2. anything

Noun

tut m

1. whole

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin t?tus.

Adverb

tut

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) all

Alternative forms

• tot (Surmiran)
• tuot (Puter, Vallader)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tut m (plural tuts)

1. (Sursilvan) nap

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) siesta, durmida
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) cupid
• (Sutsilvan) sien
• (Surmiran) cupidada, durmeidetta, cuc
• (Puter, Vallader) sönin
• (Vallader) sönet

Swedish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

tut n

1. The sound of a car horn or a train's whistle; honk.

Declension

Turkish

Verb

tut

1. second-person singular imperative of tutmak

Antonyms

• tutma

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

t?t m

1. death

Volapük

Noun

tut (nominative plural tuts)

1. tooth

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• tuit

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• tute (female)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tut/
• Hyphenation: tut

Noun

tut m

1. child