▪ I. ˈskirty, a. Linc.
[f. skirt n.]
(See quots.)
| 1851 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. i. 282 These fens..being ‘skirty’, i.e. a mixture of peat and alluvial silt or clay, forming a deep black loam. 1851 H. Stephens Bk. Farm (ed. 2) I. 490 The fen land adjoining the hard lands partaking of the characters of both, is called skirty land. |
▪ II. skirty, n. colloq.
(ˈskɜːtɪ)
[f. skirt n. + -y6.]
A skirt or underskirt.
| 1922 Joyce Ulysses 47 A woman and a man. I see her skirties. Pinned up, I bet. 1977 Sounds 9 July 18/2 I'd like to dirty up Their little skirties up. |