skilts

English

Noun

skilts pl (plural only)

  1. (US, dialect, dated or historical) A kind of wide, coarse, short trousers worn in the USA around the 18th century.
    • 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, page 22:
      The lad's skilts, through which were thrust his lean dry shanks, gave him a semblance to a peasant of Gascony on stilts.

Synonyms

  • skilty-boots (Dorset)

References

Swedish

Verb

skilts

  1. supine of skiljas
  2. passive supine of skilja