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shirt

UK/ʃɜːt/ US/ʃɜɹt/ common
noun (1) verb (1)

noun

1.

a garment worn on the upper half of the body

verb

1.

put a shirt on

Origin

From Middle English schirt, schirte, schuirte, schyrtte, seorte, shearte, shert, shirt, sseorte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”), from *skertaną (“to cut off”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off; to divide”).

Phrases

  • get one's shirt out
  • get someone's shirt out
  • give the shirt off one's back
  • keep one's shirt on
  • lose one's shirt
  • off like a dirty shirt
  • Orange Shirt Day single words
  • put one's shirt on

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