baresark

American  

[bair-sahrk] / ˈbɛər sɑrk /

noun

1. Scandinavian Legend. a berserker.

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adverb

1. without armor.

baresark British  

/ ˈbɛəˌsɑːk /

noun

1. another word for berserk

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Etymology

Origin of baresark

1830–40; variant of berserk, as if bare ¹ + sark

Example Sentences

The product of a three-year effort and a paltry $150,000, it is one of the best films thus far of the brave new underworld of the skindiver, where the actors are all baresark and the dialogue is in bubbles.

From Time Magazine Archive

They fought baresark, interlocked and silent, spinning from side to side of the room.

From Project Gutenberg

If you seek a historic band of bad men, fighting men of the bitterest Baresark type, look at the immortal defenders of the Alamo.

From Project Gutenberg

He laments his feeble physical equipment in his poem, "Terminus": "Curse, if thou wilt, thy sires, Bad husbands of their fires, Who, when they gave thee breath, Failed to bequeath The needful sinew stark as once, The Baresark marrow to thy bones, But left a legacy of ebbing veins, Inconstant heat and nerveless reins,— Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb."

From Project Gutenberg

Then it was said that the Baresark was coming up to the homestead, and then the fires were made and burned strong.

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