birthday suit
birthday suit noun: nakedness, unclothed skin; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing.
Noun
birthday suit (plural birthday suits)
- Nakedness, unclothed skin; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing.
- George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit.
- Nature, the universal tailor, provides for every other animal a birthday suit of clothes which is to outlast his life; but man, though so peculiarly sensitive to the assaults of the elements, is ushered into this nether sphere without any covering, in order that he may be compelled to exert his...1842, H., “Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus”, in Thomas Hood, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 267
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see birthday, suit.
birthday suit meaning in Malay, Persian and Thai
birthday suit in Malay
- nakedness
- bogel, telanjang
birthday suit in Persian
- nakedness
- لخت مادرزاد loxt-e mâdarzâd
birthday suit in Thai
- nakedness
- ชุดวันเกิด
Examples of birthday suit in a sentence
- At last I'm down to the nitty-gritty, my original birthday suit.1998, Paul Vaughn, “Confessions of a Naked Writer”, in Orange Coast, page 185:
- A person suddenly caught naked by the collapse of a building wall is treated quite differently than a person who intentionally “streaks” a public gathering in his or her birthday suit.2001, Tom Slattery, Immodest Proposals: Through the Pornographic Looking Glass, page 181:
Forms of birthday suit
| plural | birthday suits |
|---|---|
| alternative form | birthday-suit |
Origin of birthday suit
From the lack of clothes worn when one is born.
Words formed from birthday suit
Questions about birthday suit
- What does birthday suit mean?
- Birthday suit means nakedness, unclothed skin; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing.
- What is birthday suit in Malay?
- Birthday suit in Malay is bogel, telanjang. See Birthday suit meaning in Malay.
- How do you use birthday suit in a sentence?
- At last I'm down to the nitty-gritty, my original birthday suit.
- What part of speech is birthday suit?
- Birthday suit is a noun.
- What is the plural of birthday suit?
- The plural of birthday suit is birthday suits.
Words near birthday suit in the dictionary
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