shirtfront
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shirtfront
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From shirt + front.
noun shirtfronts
- The front part of a shirt. In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.
- A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
- A pitch that is easy to bat on.
- A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
- An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house. It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front.
verb shirtfronts · shirtfronting · shirtfronted
- To confront in a threatening manner. This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility.
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Talk about this word "shirtfront." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/shirtfront. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. shirtfront. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/shirtfront "shirtfront." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/shirtfront.
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@misc{shirtfront_2026,
title = {shirtfront},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shirtfront},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
