🟦 Wearing a kilt 🧵 Tucked up

to kilted

1 7.7

To lift up a skirt or robe so it stays out of the water and you can move more easily

verb
/ˈkɪltɪd/

: recoger

She waded across the stream with her skirt kilted to keep it from getting wet.

Examples

He kilted his robe to climb the steep hillside more easily.
She kilted her dress for the dance.
The children kilted their trousers before splashing in the shallow water.
The designer kilted the fabric beautifully.
She waded across the stream with her skirt kilted to keep it from getting wet.
He kilted his robe to climb the steep hillside more easily.
The children kilted their trousers before splashing in the shallow water.

Synonyms

to ruched

vsto kilted

Specialized

1 8.5

To gather fabric into small folds to make it look ruffled

tucks fabric into pleats arranged to resemble a pleated skirt

Surface Forms

kilt infinitive

kilted past

kilted past participle

kilting present participle

kilts third person singular

Morphology

kilted = kilt (transparent) = kilt + ed

The verb meaning is transparently related to the noun 'kilt' (to make into a kilt); '-ed' marks the past/past-participle form.

Etymology

Kilted as a verb comes from the old Scottish verb kilt, which meant 'to tuck up' or gather a skirt so it looked like a kilt. So to have a skirt or trousers kilted is to have them hitched up to keep them out of the way.