stark-naked
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of stark-naked
1520–30; stark + naked; replacing start-naked ( start, Middle English; Old English steort tail; cognate with Dutch staart, Old High German sterz, Old Norse stertr )
Example Sentences
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From the steep Blue Mountains of the Great Dividing Range it speeds toward the stark-naked Nullarbor Plain.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it rains they are covered by their mats, but, as they are all stark-naked, the rain can do them no harm.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
On the contrary, the more he dwells on it, the more is he sensible of the danger—sees it in all its stark-naked reality.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
Page 1399 The men of the Choising told us afterward 'We couldn't make out what that meant, those stark-naked fellows all cheering.'
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
An hour after dark four sorry objects, stark-naked save for their vests, and with putties bound round their feet to replace their boots, staggered into camp.
From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel
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