mother-naked
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of mother-naked
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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Some were tricked out with ornaments and skins and feathers; some were mother-naked and painted all over their bodies.
From Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories by Perceval Gibbon
"When I last saw him, riding off hell-for-leather on my nag, he was extremely alive, mother-naked and covered with blood but as alive as I am this instant."
From The Buttoned Sky by Geoff St. Reynard
So he lay there quietly, deeming it no avail for him, a mother-naked man, to seek escape thence; but it was long ere he might sleep, because of his trouble of mind.
From Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
They shaped him in her arms at last, A mother-naked man; She wrapt him in her green mantle, And sae her true love wan.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott
He did not wield the ready, punctual pen of him whom Lockhart most invidiously calls "the bronzed and mother-naked gentleman of the Press."
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
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