mother-naked

[ muhth-er-ney-kid ]

adjective

1. stark naked; as naked as when born.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mother-naked¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

"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."

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Her pride was already in tatters, her vanity in rags: could she have found him, she would have stripped the two mother-naked.

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Mac swung himself up to a sitting position and realized dizzily that he was mother-naked.

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He did not wield the ready, punctual pen of him whom Lockhart most invidiously calls "the bronzed and mother-naked gentleman of the Press."

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Mother- naked I bid him to go, And he goes mother-naked.

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