mother-naked
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of mother-naked
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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To write a book, to send it forth to the world and the critics, is to a sensitive person like plunging mother-naked into tropic waters where sharks abound.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
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
"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
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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