Kilo vs Kilt - What's the difference?
kilo | kilt |
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To gather up (skirts) around the body.
* 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 385:
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.
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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.
As nouns the difference between kilo and kilt
is that kilo is (l), short form of kilogram (unit of mass equal to 1000 grams) while 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.As a verb kilt is
to gather up (skirts) around the body.kilo
English
Noun
(en noun)Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […], passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo .}}
See also
* kilo-Anagrams
* English clippings ----kilt
English
(wikipedia kilt)Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- 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 […].