ungirt

[uhn-gurt]

adjective

1. having a girdle loosened or removed.

2. slack; relaxed; not taut or pulled together.

   ungirt thinking.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ungirt¹

First recorded in 1250–1300, ungirt is from the Middle English word ungyrt. See un- ¹, girt ¹

Example Sentences

She wore a dark, shapeless, ungirt robe covered with patches and stains.

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It is a truth recognised in The Song of the Ungirt Runners, Charles Hamilton Sorley’s poetic hymn to those “who do not run for prize”, but who run “because they like it”.

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He would have to do it in the felon’s way “ungirt, unshod, bareheaded, in his bare shirt as if he were hanged on a gallows.”

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And St. Laurence ungirt his robe, and giving his girdle to the sacristan, bade him show it in proof of what he told.

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It is a moot point how far the extremely loose and ungirt character of this style, which sometimes, and indeed often, reaches sheer slovenliness and solecism, was intentional.

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