Home › Words › B › beskirtbeskirtbeskirt means to border; lie on the outskirts of.EtymologyFrom be- + skirt.verbTo border; lie on the outskirts of.e.g.“Pitrodie's woods beskirt the feet Of heath-clad Ben-na-chie, And through their shade the breezes fleet, And hum from tree to tree.” — 1892, J.Y. Mather, Poems:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.beskirted 71% match — Wearing a skirt. vs beskirt →encircling 66% match — enclosing, skirting vs beskirt →skirter 64% match — One who skirts around something. vs beskirt →skirty 60% match — Like a skirt; featuring a skirt or skirts. vs beskirt →skirted 59% match — Wearing a skirt. vs beskirt →surrounding 59% match — An outlying area; area in proximity to something. vs beskirt →surrounds 58% match — Things bordering, adjacent to, or near something else; surroundings. vs beskirt →begirdle 58% match — To encircle or surround, as with a girdle. vs beskirt →