skirt vs undress

skirt

verb
  • To cover with a skirt; to surround. 

  • To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something). 

  • To be on or form the border of. 

  • To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of. 

noun
  • An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body. 

  • The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist. 

  • Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything. 

  • The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals 

  • A petticoat. 

  • Women collectively, in a sexual context. 

  • A woman. 

  • Sexual intercourse with a woman. 

  • A loose edging to any part of a dress. 

undress

verb
  • To take the dressing, or covering, from. 

  • To remove the clothing of (someone). 

  • To remove one's clothing. 

  • To remove one’s clothing. 

  • To strip of something. 

noun
  • Partial or informal dress for women, as worn in the home rather than in public. 

  • Informal clothing for men, as opposed to formal or ceremonial wear. 

  • Now more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on. 

How often have the words skirt and undress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )