1630s, from short (adj.) + sleeve. First recorded in an ordinance of Massachusetts Bay colony, forbidding "short sleeves, whereby the nakedness of the arme may be discovered."
shortly
shortness
short-order
shorts
short-sighted
short-sleeve
shortstop
short-term
short-timer
short-wave
shorty
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