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Definition kilt

Etymology 1

From Middle English kilten (“to tuck up, gird”), apparently of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Old Norse kelta, kjalta (“skirt; lap”). Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kelt-, *kelþ?, *kilþ?? (“womb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“round body; child”). Cognate with Danish kilte (“to tuck”), Swedish kilta (“to swathe”). Related to English child.

Verb

kilt (third-person singular simple present kilts, present participle kilting, simple past and past participle kilted)

1. To gather up (skirts) around the body. [from 14th c.]

Noun

kilt (plural kilts)

1. A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. [from 18th c.]
2. (historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid
3. A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19 century USA.
4. A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.

Etymology 2

kill +‎ -t

Verb

kilt

1. (obsolete or African American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of killed: simple past tense and past participle of kill.

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