stark naked
Betekenis (Engels)
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Synoniemen
completely naked
bare-ass
stripped to the buff
in one’s bare skin
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Etymologie (Engels)
In summary
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").
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