stark-naked
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of stark-naked
1520–30; stark + naked; replacing start-naked ( start, Middle English; Old English steort tail; cognate with Dutch staart, Old High German sterz, Old Norse stertr )
Example Sentences
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From the steep Blue Mountains of the Great Dividing Range it speeds toward the stark-naked Nullarbor Plain.
From Time Magazine Archive
One was blind, the other lame, and the third stark-naked.
From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Margaret Hunt
They knew not how they should behave, For all from Heav'n stark-naked came; But Poetry their garments gave, And then not one had cause for shame.
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring
The party is composed of Bombay, my interpreter; Gaetano, the Goanese cook-boy; two Beluch soldiers; one Nakhuda or sea-captain, who sometimes wore a goat-skin; and twenty stark-naked savage sailors: twenty-six in all.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
When it rains they are covered by their mats, but, as they are all stark-naked, the rain can do them no harm.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
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