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stark naked, a. (and n.)
[f. stark adv. 2; altered from the earlier start-naked.]
1. Of a person: Absolutely without clothing.
1530Palsgr. 842/1 Starke bely naked, tout fin mere nud... Starke naked, tout fin nud. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 356 They left them starcke naked. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 59 Rather on Nylus mudde Lay me starke-nak'd. 1771Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) I. 474 Both sexes go stark-naked. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xvi. 44 The little children were running about among the huts, stark naked. 1913Sir H. Johnston Pioneers Australia vii. 227 These stark-naked savages.
b. transf. and fig.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iv. 274 Therefore on, or strippe your sword starke naked. 1712Steele Spect. No. 268 ⁋9, I came to my Mistress's Toilet this Morning, for I am admitted when her Face is stark naked. 1765H. Walpole Let. to Miss A. Pitt 25 Dec., The rest of the room is stark naked. 1779Warner in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) IV. 246 A great stark-naked new house on an eminence, without a morsel of anything green about it. 1881Athenæum 27 Aug. 267/2 This is the essential difficulty, stated in its simplest and stark-naked form. 1895Dialect Notes (Amer. Dial. Soc. 1896) I. viii. 379 Naked, starknaked: of tea without milk or sugar,—pure, undiluted.
2. n. Unadulterated spirit; esp. raw gin. slang.
1820J. H. Reynolds Fancy (1906) 83 To take of Deady's bright stark naked A glass or so. 1830Lytton Paul Clifford iv, His ‘bingo’ was unexceptionable; and as for his stark-naked, it was voted the most brilliant thing in nature. 1860Hotten's Slang Dict. 227 Stark-naked,..raw gin. |