different between skirts vs petticoat
skirts
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /sk?ts/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sk??ts/
- Rhymes: -??(?)ts
Noun
skirts
- plural of skirt
Verb
skirts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skirt
Anagrams
- Kirsts, stirks
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petticoat
English
Etymology
From Middle English petticote, petycote, peticote, petite cote, equivalent to petty +? coat.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?t?k??t/
Noun
petticoat (plural petticoats)
- (historical) A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by men over a shirt and under the doublet.
- (historical) A woman's undercoat, worn to be displayed beneath an open gown.
- (historical) A fisherman's loose canvas or oilcloth skirt.
- (archaic or historical) A type of ornamental skirt or underskirt, often displayed below a dress; chiefly in plural, designating a woman's skirts collectively.
- A light woman's undergarment worn under a dress or skirt, and hanging either from the shoulders or (now especially) from the waist; a kind of slip, worn to make the skirt fuller, or for extra warmth.
- (slang) A woman.
- (historical) A bell-mouthed piece over the exhaust nozzles in the smokebox of a locomotive, strengthening and equalising the draught through the boiler-tubes.
Synonyms
- underskirt
Derived terms
- petticoat government
- petticoating
- petticoat pipe
- underpetticoat
Translations
Verb
petticoat (third-person singular simple present petticoats, present participle petticoating, simple past and past participle petticoated)
- (transitive) To dress in a petticoat.
Adjective
petticoat (not comparable)
- (dated) Feminine; female; involving a woman.
- petticoat influence
- a petticoat affair
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