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[syn: bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), adv.
Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
--Fuller.
[1913 Webster]
Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare.
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Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak.
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Note: According to Professor Skeat, "stark-naked" is derived
from steort-naked, or start-naked, literally
tail-naked, and hence wholly naked. If this etymology
be true the preferable form is stark-naked.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stark naked
adj 1: (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-
assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff,
in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird,
stark naked]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "stark naked":
bald, bare, bare-ass, gymnosophical, in native buff,
in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw,
naked, naturistic, nude, nudist, peeled, raw, stripped, unclad,
unclothed, undressed, with nothing on, without a stitch