adj
Meaning 1
Completely naked.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
stark naked
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noun
Meaning 2
Raw gin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, slang, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: strip me naked
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
(used informally) completely unclothed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: чисто гол (čisto gol) — completely naked
- Catalan: conill — completely naked
- Chinese Mandarin: 赤裸裸 (chìluǒluǒ) — completely naked
- Chinese Mandarin: 全裸 (quánluǒ) — completely naked
- Faroese: spilnakin — completely naked
- Faroese: blóðnakin — completely naked
- Faroese: heilt nakin — completely naked
- Finnish: ilkosillaan — completely naked
- Finnish: ilkosen alasti — completely naked
- Finnish: ilkialasti — completely naked
- French: à poil — completely naked
- German: splitternackt — completely naked
- German: splitterfasernackt — completely naked
- German: fasernackt — completely naked
- Indonesian: telanjang bulat — completely naked
- Irish: tarnocht — completely naked
- Japanese: 真っ裸 (mappadaka) — completely naked
- Japanese: 素っ裸 (suppadaka) — completely naked
- Japanese: 全裸 (zenra) — completely naked
- Mongolian: чармаа нүцгэн (čarmaa nücgen) — completely naked
- Mongolian: чармаа шалдан (čarmaa šaldan) — completely naked
- Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠷᠠᠮᠠ ᠨᠢᠴᠦᢉᠦᠨ — completely naked
- Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠷᠠᠮᠠ ᠱᠠᠯᠳᠠᠩ (čiram-a šaldang) — completely naked
- Portuguese: à pai Adão — completely naked
- Romanian: gol nap — completely naked
- Romanian: gol pușcă — completely naked
- Romanian: gol ca degetul — completely naked
- Spanish: en pelotas — completely naked
- Spanish: en cueros vivos — completely naked
- Spanish: en bolas — completely naked
- Swedish: spritt språngande naken — completely naked
- Welsh: noethlymun — completely naked