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stark naked

stark naked adjective: completely naked.

Adjective

stark naked (not comparable)

  1. Completely naked.
    Synonyms:
    nude

Noun

stark naked (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, slang) Raw gin.
    • "Give us a glass of 'stark naked,' Job! This plaguey fog's well nigh choked me," said Rube, spluttering and coughing, and vituperating it.1870, Langford Cecil, Fenacre Grange, page 15
    Synonyms:
    strip me naked

stark naked meaning in Indonesian

stark naked in Indonesian

completely naked
telanjang bulat

Synonyms of stark naked

Origin of stark naked

From Middle English stert naked (steort nakt, sternaked, star naked); the first element is from Old English steort (“tail”). The change from "start-naked" to "stark-naked" was most likely by folk etymology due to a misinterpretation of the phrase as being a way of saying "starkly naked" ("strongly naked, harshly naked"). The opposite change has shifted buck naked to butt naked in colloquial modern English.

Questions about stark naked

What does stark naked mean?
Stark naked means completely naked.
What is stark naked in Indonesian?
Stark naked in Indonesian is telanjang bulat. See Stark naked meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is stark naked?
Stark naked can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near stark naked in the dictionary

  1. starjumps
  2. stark
  3. stark bollock naked
  4. Stark County
  5. Stark effect
  6. stark naked
  7. stark raving mad
  8. stark staring mad
  9. Stark-Einstein law
  10. Stark-Heegner theorem
  11. Starkable

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