Definitions for short-waisted

short-waisted short-waist·ed

Spelling: [shawrt-wey-stid]
IPA: /ˈʃɔrtˈweɪ stɪd/

Short-Waisted is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 1583 anagrams from letters in short-waisted (-adehiorssttw).

Definitions for short-waisted

adjective

  1. of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.

Origin of short-waisted

First recorded in 1580-90

Examples for short-waisted

It was short-waisted, and gave her figure a short, chunky appearance.

She wore a white satin gown, short-waisted, with a long panel down the front, embroidered with tiny pearls and gold thread.

This was placed under the bertha of cobweb lace, and demurely in the middle of the short-waisted bodice.

Her dingy drab jacket was short-waisted, and her red woollen Tam o' Shanter made her look very childish.

It was an oil painting, a portrait of a young girl in a short-waisted white satin dress, clasping in her hands a red rose.

He had a short-waisted, thin body and abnormally long, thin legs, like the shadow a man casts at sunup.

A short-waisted and single-breasted jacket usurped the place of the long-tailed coat, and became universal.

Duck-legged, short-waisted, such a dwarf she is That she must rise on tiptoe for a kiss.

The dresses are plain in cut; they are all short-waisted if at all fashionable.

Does it strike you that this dress of mine makes me look too short-waisted?

Word Value for short-waisted
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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