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

• Bartlett, John Russell (1859) Dictionary of Americanisms‎^[1], 2nd edition, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 410
• “skilts”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Swedish

Verb

skilts

1. supine of skiljas
2. passive supine of skilja