Kilt, Skirt, MUG, etc.

[davedove]

I disagree and so does the OED. As the OED defines a "skirt" as a garment for woman, the only kilt fitting within the OED's definition of "skirt" is a woman's kilt.

But the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary says this:

kilt[noun]

Main Entry: kilt
Function: noun
1 : a knee-length pleated skirt usually of tartan worn by men in Scotland and by Scottish regiments in the British armies
2 : a garment that resembles a Scottish kilt

So, people (even scholars) define things differently. I won't offer an opinion on which dictionary is "better", only that there are a variety of definitions. Besides, we all know it's a kilt. If someone else wants to call it a skirt, that's only his closed minded ignorance showing.