bareskin
bareskin adjective: not wearing clothing; not covered by clothing, hair, feathers, etc.
Adjective
bareskin (not comparable)
- Not wearing clothing; not covered by clothing, hair, feathers, etc.
- A bare-skin boy did guide my feet—
A boy with pretty, pouting ways:
And oh, ’twas shrewd deceit!1907, Hartley Burr Alexander, “Songs of the Seasons, 3. Love and Autumn” in The Mid Earth Life, Springfield, MA: H.R. Huntting, p. 58, I sought thee in the spring-tide, sweet,— All through the rosy... - He sat there thinking of his youth, of fighting a man bare-skin in White haven and throttling him […]1931, Hugh Walpole, Judith Paris, London: Macmillan, Part 2, “The Clipping,” p. 356
- A bare-skin boy did guide my feet—
- In which participants do not wear clothing. (of an activity or event)
- After your babe’s next bath, put him freely on the bed still in his birthday clothes […] I happen to know one mother who has made daily practice of this bareskin play with her youngest child.1911, Mrs. Todd Lunsford, “As the Twig is Bent,” Kindergarten Journal, Chicago Kindergarten College Alumnae Association, Volume 6, No. 4, p. 141
- […] the WAAC, A.W.O.L. from Ft. Des Moines, who was found doing a bareskin act in a local burlesque, was a misguided miss who had taken these Navy “Strip for Action” posters too seriously.1942, “Campus Caravan,” The George Washington University Hatchet, Volume 39, No. 14, 15 December, 1942, p. 2
Examples of bareskin in a sentence
- His fez sits on the little table with the stacks of Xeroxed parts, and thus is exposed the jagged bareskin patch, shaped like Antarctica, amid the tightscrolled turf that covers his skull.1988, Conrad L. Osborne, “Change of Command”, in O Paradiso, New York: Arbor House/William Morrow, page 194:
- She believed herself to be free of morbid modesty—she recalled suddenly that she had gone on her first bareskin swimming party at fifteen.1961, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 8, in Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 67:
Synonyms of bareskin
Forms of bareskin
| alternative form | bare-skin |
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Origin of bareskin
From bare + skin.
Questions about bareskin
- What does bareskin mean?
- Bareskin means not wearing clothing; not covered by clothing, hair, feathers, etc.
- How do you use bareskin in a sentence?
- His fez sits on the little table with the stacks of Xeroxed parts, and thus is exposed the jagged bareskin patch, shaped like Antarctica, amid the tightscrolled turf that covers his skull.
- What part of speech is bareskin?
- Bareskin is an adjective.
Words near bareskin in the dictionary
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