skirting

verbborder; be on the edge

verbavoid; get around

Word Origin & History

early 14c., "lower part of a woman's dress," from Old Norse skyrta "shirt, a kind of kirtle;" see shirt. Sense development from "shirt" to "skirt" is possibly related to the long shirts of peasant garb (cf. Low German cognate Schört, in some dialects "woman's gown"). Sense of "border, edge" (in outskirts, etc.) first recorded late 15c. Metonymic use for "women collectively" is from 1550s; slang sense of "young woman" is from 1906; skirt-chaser first attested 1942.

Example Sentences for skirting

Continuing their inspection, they went on, skirting the hillside.

After skirting the covert, she turned homewards by a pathway through the trees.

The old dame entered, skirting warily the vicinity of the "madman."

I started back at the gallop, skirting the side of the valley.

We ran along the road, skirting the edge of the little town.

Then skirting a big beadle in blue, policemen, and loungers, I reached the box-office.

Skirting the edge of the cone they emerged from the woods and came to the border of a village.

Skirting in and out, we saw about three miles of houseboats on sampans.

To sail along it, keeping parallel to or skirting its dangers.

Before long the Barracouta and her tow were skirting the eastern ledges.

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verb border; be on the edge

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