Skirt vs. Pants — What's the Difference?

A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards.At its simplest, a skirt can be a draped garment made out of a single piece of fabric (such as pareos). However, most skirts are fitted to the body at the waist or hips and fuller below, with the fullness introduced by means of darts, gores, pleats, or panels.

Underpants or knickers.

The part of a garment, such as a dress or coat, that hangs freely from the waist down.

Trousers

A garment hanging from the waist and worn especially by women and girls.

Rubbish; nonsense

One of the leather flaps hanging from the side of a saddle.

To breathe rapidly in short gasps, as after exertion.

The lower outer section of a rocket vehicle.

To beat loudly or heavily; throb or pulsate.

A flexible strip hanging from the base of an air-cushion vehicle.

To give off loud puffs, especially while moving.

A piece of fabric that extends over or beyond something to afford protection.

To long demonstratively; yearn

A spray skirt.

To utter hurriedly or breathlessly

An outer edge; a border or margin

A short labored breath; a gasp.

Offensive Slang A woman.

A throb; a pulsation.

To lie along or form the edge of; border

A short loud puff, as of steam from an engine.

To pass around rather than across or through

An outer garment that covers the body below the waist, usually to the ankles, and is divided into sections to fit each leg separately

To pass close to; miss narrowly

Underpants.

To evade, as by circumlocution

An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.

To lie along, move along, or be an edge or a border.

An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.

An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.

Rubbish; something worthless.

The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.

Of inferior quality, rubbish.

A loose edging to any part of a dress.

A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.

A petticoat.

Underpants.

A woman.

Underpants worn by women; panties.

Women collectively, in a sexual context.

(usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately;

Sexual intercourse with a woman.

(usually in the plural) underpants worn by women;

Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.

The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals

To be on or form the border of.

To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.

To cover with a skirt; to surround.

To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).

The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

A loose edging to any part of a dress.

Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything

A petticoat.

The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

To cover with a skirt; to surround.

To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.

To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.

Cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist

A garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women

Informal terms for a (young) woman

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);

Pass around or about; move along the border;

Form the edge of

Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle;