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Killed vs Kilt - What's the difference?

killed | kilt |

As verbs the difference between killed and kilt

is that killed is past tense of kill while kilt is to gather up (skirts) around the body.

As an adjective killed

is deoxidized.

As a noun kilt is

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.

killed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (kill)
  • Derived terms

    * must have killed a Chinaman

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (metallurgy, of steel) deoxidized
  • kilt

    English

    (wikipedia kilt)

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To gather up (skirts) around the body.
  • * 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 385:
  • Else at her new place worked outdoor and indoor, she'd to kilt' her skirts (if they needed ' kilting – and that was damned little with those short-like frocks) and go out and help at the spreading of dung […].

    Noun

    (kilts)
  • 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.
  • (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;
  • A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts . But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * filibeg, philibeg

    References